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promptly

Adverb

Meaning

In a prompt manner.

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If God is slow in answering your request, or if you ask but do not promptly receive anything, do not be upset, for you are not wiser than God. Isaac the Syrian

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! Winston Churchill

There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out. John Maynard Keynes

Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few -- the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill. Smedley Butler

All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly - right now. Buckminster Fuller

Giving promptly is like giving twice. Sicilian Proverb

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