"The lessons of experience are always learned too late."
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"Conscience ... seldom comes to a man's aid while he is in the zenith of health and revelling in pomp and luxury upon illgotten spoils. It is generally the last act of his life, and it comes too late to be of much service to others here, or to himself hereafter."
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"I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now. I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim."
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"I'm also very fond of a light business jet, so I'd like to get it before it's too late."
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"I believe from what I can see there is a good chance the shift will happen in humanity before it is too late."
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"We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live."
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"It is never too late to do right."
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"You didn't listen to me," Lan whispered. One last lesson. The hardest. Demandred struck, and Lan saw his opening. Lan lunged forward placing Demandred's sword point against his own side and ramming himself forward onto it. "I did not come here to win," Lan whispered, smiling. "I came here to kill you. Death is lighter than a feather." Demandred's eyes opened wide, and he tried to pull back. Too late. Lan's sword took him straight though the throat."
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"It was never too late to undo who you had become."
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"Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay."
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"Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time."
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"I have never heard anyone say This is it. I know right now is the high point of my life. It will never get any better. Only in retrospect do we recognize the best times and of course then it is too late."
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"Some people are faster than others; I'm just figuring it out later, that's all. I'm getting smart too late and old too soon."
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"I look for you in every life, but I don't always find you. And sometimes I find you too late."
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"It is never too late in life to practice yoga"
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"Maybe the most real thing the end. To realize when it's too late."
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"there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late"
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"We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late. We can save our planet and also boost our economy at the same time."
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"Words, how little they mean when they are too late."
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"For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is CERTAIN, that nothing bad will ever happen to ME. Others die, I go on. There are no consequences and no responsibilities. Except that there ARE. But let's not talk about them, eh? By the time the consequences catch up to you, it's too late, isn't it, Montag?"
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