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65 AD·Rome, Italy

Assert your right to your own time, and gather together and save the time which up till lately has been either taken from you or filched away or has simply passed by unused.

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There is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and never return.

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People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.

Benjamin Franklin·1748

Lost Time is never found again.

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