Painterly sealed envelope with a gold wax seal beside dried flowers and sealing tools.

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Emma • 1815

Jane Austen

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The statement joins a judgment about what ought to be done with an argument for doing it promptly. Once the action is considered right, sooner is better. Its brisk certainty leaves little room for postponement disguised as caution or deliberation.

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