"It is better to be at the right place with ten men than absent with ten thousand."
— Timur

January 1, 1970

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Attributed in Harold Lamb, Tamerlane: The Earth Shaker (Garden City Publishing Co, 1928) p. 123. Variant: 'on hand' instead of 'at the right place'