The only true time which a man can properly call his own is that which he has all to himself the rest though in some sense he may be said to live it is other people's time not his.

Charles Lamb
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  1. Lost Time is never found again. - Benjamin Franklin

  2. How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever. - David Norris

  3. Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. - Dion Boucicault

  4. But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. - Benjamin Disraeli

  5. Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time, ' is like saying, 'I don't want to. - Lao Tzu

More Quotes By Charles Lamb
  1. I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

  2. I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.

  3. Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.

  4. A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

  5. There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine.

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