The pretext for indecisiveness is commonly mature deliberation; but in reality indecisive men occupy themselves less in deliberation than others; for to him who fears to decide, deliberation (which has a foretaste of that fear) soon becomes intolerably irksome, and the mind escapes from the anxiety of it into alien themes.

Henry Taylor (1800–1886) English dramatist, poet, bureaucrat, man of letters

The Statesman: An Ironical Treatise on the Art of Succeeding, ch. 21 (1836)
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