“We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.”

—  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

The Clockmaker (1836); comparable to "Remember that time is money" in "Advice to a Young Tradesman" (1748) by Benjamin Franklin

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Canadian-British politician, judge, and author 1796–1865

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