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- To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to meet an old one.
- Selwyn Champion
- Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
- Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
- Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
- Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
- Truth is the daughter of time.
- Aulus Gellius
- It is pleasant at times to play the madman.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
- Nay, tempt me not to love again:
There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet! But oh! this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one! Would I endure such pangs again. - Sir Thomas More (1478 - 1535)
- There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted.
- Book of Common Prayer
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