The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome…

Charles Caleb Colton
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The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that iron hot by striking and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it. ✨ Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'., p.161
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