APAD: ManyHands make light work; 2Many cooks spoil the broth

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1. Many hands make light work
- Used to say that people can do things more quickly and easily when they work together
- This proverb was first recorded in English in the early 1300s in a knightly romance known as Sir Bevis of Hampton. It appeared in practically all proverb collections from 1546 on.  

2. Too many cooks spoil the broth
- Too many people involved in managing an activity can ruin it, as in "Without a conductor, every player had an idea for how the music should go". This expression alludes to each of many cooks adding something to a soup, which finally tastes awful.
- It was already considered a proverb in 1575 (by George Gascoigne in The Life of P. Care).

 

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Friends, I present to you today, not one, but two related yet opposite proverbs.  Why?  Why not? 鬼臉
Every coin has two sides, so do most things we need to deal with.  The key lies in an interesting word: Balance.

Wish U all happy reading, happy thinking, happy balancing, happy weekending ... ...

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