Time lost to pointless delay can never be regained. It is the most reprehensible kind of theft. Why was it that men did not grasp this simple fact? Money comes and goes and comes again, and knowledge can be acquired and forgotten and rediscovered, but time once lost is lost for good, each passing second irretrievable.
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About John Pipkin, The Blind Astronomer's Daughter
John Pipkin, The Blind Astronomer's Daughter.
Themes
- Time — Reflections on the passage of time and how we spend it