Better Late Than Never

What it means

Doing something after the moment has passed still beats never doing it.

Where it comes from

The proverb is at least six hundred years old in English, and Chaucer has a version of it. Livy wrote potius sero quam numquam long before that, so lateness is not a modern failing.

The puzzle it came from

Better Late Than Never was the answer to the Phrasicle of December 27, 2025. The clue read ____ ____ than ____, and the words came out of a grid where every neighbouring pair makes a two-word phrase.

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