If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.
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What with your exercises, some reading, and a great deal of company, your day is, I confess, extremely taken up; but the day, if well employed, is long enough for everything; and I am sure you will not slattern away one moment of it in inaction.
Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) English statesman, wit [Philip Dormer Stanhope]
Letter to his son, #238 (8 Jan 1751)
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You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Charles Buxton (1823-1871) English brewer, philanthropist, writer, politician
Notes of Thought, #488 (1873)
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What I love the most about deadlines is the whooshing sound they make as they go by.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English writer
Attributed in Richard Dawkins, “A Lament for Douglas Adams,” The Guardian (2001-05-13)
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Memorial to his friend, Adams; later collected in The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
