Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
“Memoranda: The Late Benjamin Franklin,” epigraph, The Galaxy Magazine (Jul 1870)
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Offered as a faux Franklin maxim, in an essay where Twain mocked veneration of Franklin's biography and supposedly original aphorisms.
More background on this quotation: Never Put Off Till Tomorrow What You Can Do The Day After Tomorrow Just As Well – Quote Investigator.
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. Today, this is more commonly given as “Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” Franklin had used a different phrasing in Poor Richard (1742 ed.): “Have you somewhat to do To-morrow, do it To-day.” That was reprinted…
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