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Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
Richard Whately
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Richard Whately
Age: 76 †
Born: 1787
Born: February 1
Died: 1863
Died: October 8
Economist
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Controversy, though always an evil in itself, is sometimes a necessary evil.
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Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth but either should set us upon testing ourselves.
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A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
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When men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous despotism.
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The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind.
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