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better_late_than_never

better late than never

English

Adverb

better late than never

  1. It's better to do something late, than to never do it at all.
    • 1996. Titus Livius (translation). Livy's History of Rome (in English):
      Their insolence and recklessness must be opposed, and better late than never.

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  1. Butterfield, Bruce J. (1996), “Livy's History of Rome”, in (Please provide the title of the work) (HTML, in English.), Marquette University (mu.edu), retrieved May 29, 2007