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servant
If you would be well SERVED, serve yourself
Very similar to
if you WANT a thing done well, do it yourself.
1659
English & Italian Dict
. 39
Who hath a mind to any thing let him go himself.
1706
Spanish & English Dict
. s.v. Querer,
If you would be well serv'd, serve your self.
1871
Memoir of Jane Austen
(ed. 2) ii.
‘If you would be well served, serve yourself.’ Some gentlemen took pleasure in being their own gardeners.
1981
Times
28 Apr. 15
Absurd that the important things in one's life should be made by another person—‘One is never so well served as by oneself.’
efficiency and inefficiency
;
self-help
if you WANT a thing done well, do it yourself.
1659English & Italian Dict
. 39
Who hath a mind to any thing let him go himself.
1706
Spanish & English Dict
. s.v. Querer,
If you would be well serv'd, serve your self.
1871
Memoir of Jane Austen
(ed. 2) ii.
‘If you would be well served, serve yourself.’ Some gentlemen took pleasure in being their own gardeners.
1981
Times
28 Apr. 15
Absurd that the important things in one's life should be made by another person—‘One is never so well served as by oneself.’
efficiency and inefficiency;
self-help
served
session
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