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Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

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Time is that by which at every moment all things become as nothing in our hands, and thereby lose all their true value.

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It is for this reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be intime alone, for time has no contiguity, nor in space alone, forspace ha...more

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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriati...more

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Common people are merely intent on spending time - whoever has some talent, on making use of it.