"You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing."

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"You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing."

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Richie Norton, American Author

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"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

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Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

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