It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish. ✨ J.R.R.…

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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish. ✨ J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings, p.255, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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