Habitual or intentional delay of starting or finishing a task despite knowing potential negative consequences

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Saint Expeditus. Oil painting by a painter of Palermo, 18--.

A woman with a venereal disease walks in sunshine past a sequence of markers of the passing months, referring to the danger of delayed treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. Colour lithograph after M. Bennett.

Hourly comics day 2019 / Morgan Sea.

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Procrastination

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A woman with a venereal disease walks in sunshine past a sequence of markers of the passing months, referring to the danger of delayed treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. Colour lithograph after M. Bennett.

Saint Expeditus. Oil painting by a painter of Palermo, 18--.

Hourly comics day 2019 / Morgan Sea.