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‘Never put off until tomorrow

what you can do today.’
Lord Chesterfield

A personal sense of time

There is nothing which I wish more that you should know,

and which fewer people do know, than the true use and

value of time. It is in everybody’s mouth, but in few people’s

practice. Every fool, who scatters away his whole time in

nothing, utters, however, some trite commonplace sentence,

of which there are millions, to prove, at once, the value and

the fleetness of time. The sundials all over Europe have

some ingenious inscriptions to that effect; so that nobody

squanders away their time without hearing and seeing

daily how necessary it is to employ well, and how

irrecoverable it is if lost.

Lord Chesterfield • Letters to His Son

‘Never leave till tomorrow
which you can do today.’

Benjamin Franklin

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