Slow but Sure

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“See o’er this icy pathway pictured here, / Three sturdy travelers on foot appear; / One of them slips - he breaks his bones - / ‘So much for hurrying,’ thus he inward groans: / The man more wise and careful goes more slow, / Looks where he steps, and doth more surely go."—Barber, 1857

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ice, fall, proverb, slip, kproverb, metaphor, watch your step, slow but sure, slow and steady, careful, icy

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Groups of Men

Source

Barber, John W. The Handbook of Illustrated Proverbs (New York, NY: George F. Tuttle, 1857)

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