Our time is like our money; when we change a guinea the shillings escape as things of small account; when we break a day by idleness in the morning, the rest of the hours lose their importance in our eyes.
Sir Walter Scott · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 360
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Our time is like our money; when we change a guinea the shillings escape as things of small account; when we break a day by idleness in the morning, the rest of the hours lose their importance in our eyes.
Sir Walter Scott · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 360
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