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Quote by Samuel Johnson
The greatest part of a writers time is spent in reading in order t

The greatest part of a writers time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. – Samuel Johnson

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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. – Samuel Johnson

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Money
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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. – Samuel Johnson

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Birthday
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. – William Faulkner

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Time

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. – Carl Sandburg

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Time

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? – Dr. Seuss

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Time

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: Checkout Time is 18 years. – Erma Bombeck

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Time

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There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being theres fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out. – Peter Mullan

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Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length – beginning, middle, end: a story unfolding. – Sebastian Coe

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I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do today. – Will Rogers

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Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistrys haunting curse, the Incomplete! – Robert Browning

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