"You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours."
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"So the hours are pretty good then?' he resumed. The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths. Yeah,' he said, 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy."
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"Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours."
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"Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you."
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"Just because I'm flaunting it doesn't mean you can stare for hours on end. A polite ogle is appreciated and suitable for a flaunt. Slobbering is not."
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"Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours."
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"Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass."
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"Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour."
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"In this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinking."
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"There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man’s courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was that hour only that he feared."
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"All the women in the world would not make me lose an hour."
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"Every hour you spend writing is an hour you don't spend worrying about your writing."
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"It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself."
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"I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."
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"To fill the hour──that is happiness."
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"Rise with the hour for which you were made."
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"It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it."
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"I love to go to the studio and stay there 10 or 12 hours a day. I love it. What is it? I don't know. It's life."
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"She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour."
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"Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour."
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