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“I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves. I am very sure, that many people lose two or three hours every day, by not taking care of the minutes.”
― Earl Of Chesterfield: Letters To His Son Part One
― Earl Of Chesterfield: Letters To His Son Part One
“I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.”
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“A pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.”
― Earl Of Chesterfield: Letters To His Son Part One
― Earl Of Chesterfield: Letters To His Son Part One
“Were it not for the presence of the unwashed and the half-educated, the formless, queer and incomplete, the unreasonable and absurd, the infinite shapes of the delightful human tadpole, the horizon would not wear so wide a grin.”
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“If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a spectulator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.”
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