Never cut what you can untie.

Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist, philosopher, essayist, poet
Pensées, #1797 (1838) [tr. Collins (1928)]

Alt. trans.: "Don't cut what you can untie." [Notebooks, ed. Paul Auster (1983)]

 
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