he travels fastest who travels alone
- he travels fastest who travels alone
Cf. 1854 H. D. THOREAU Walden 78 The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
1888 R. KIPLING Story of Gadsby (1889) 94 Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels fastest who travels alone.
1921 E. WAUGH Journal 19 June in Diaries (1979) 129 Hale’s gone already. I suppose he will have to. ‘He travels fastest who travels alone’ anyway.
1989 F. KING Reflections in Jaundiced Eye iv. The reason I can ‘do what I do’ is because I’ve never married. He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she.
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