"I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written."

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"I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written."

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"Life is defined by time and seasons."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

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"They say "time is money". But I want to say "time makes money". This means time is greater than money."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time's fool,And Time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"All things are made beautiful at a timely hour."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?"

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"Much rain wears the marble."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Don't depend on the thoughts, "I need more time". There are only 24 hours in each day. You can't make it 25 or 26. You just have to plan your activities very well so as to achieve the expected things with the natural time limit."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Four days will quickly steep themselves in nightsFour nights will quickly dream away the time."

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"Act so that every action of yours should be capable of becoming an universal rule of action for all men."

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"I do not believe that I am a vindictive man, but when the immortal gods take a hand in the matter it is pardonable to observe the results with complacency."

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"Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five."

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"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."

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"It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it."

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"It looked as though you did not act in a certain way because you thought in a certain way, but rather you thought in a certain way because you were made in a certain way. Truth had nothing to do with it."

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"An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."

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"There is only one thing about which I am certain and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain."

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"Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part."

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"I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan't make the mistakes I've made. When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I'm going to bring up my daughter so that she's free and can stand on her own feet. I m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he's willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life."

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