"You may ask me for anything you like except time."
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"Dates in Calendar are Closer Than They Appear! Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you."
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"Time is wealth, and unlike money when it is gone you cannot replace it."
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"Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science."
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"One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged."
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"If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it."
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"Like fragile ice anger passes away in time."
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"Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign."
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"Tempore difficiles veniunt ad aratra juvenci; Tempore lenta pati frena docentur equi. In time the unmanageable young oxen come to the plough; in time the horses are taught to endure the restraining bit."
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"The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do."
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"Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending."
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"I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me."
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"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority."
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"Limit time to the present. Meditate upon your last hour."
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"Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth."
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"The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish."
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"The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns."
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"For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting."
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"Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi."
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"Time is the rider that breaks youth."
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