Faith's Checkbook entry for June 22.
“Wasting time is one of the worst faults of the world. Life is so short, every moment is so precious and yet, we live as if life will never end.”
As quoted in Alan Walker, Franz Liszt : The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847 (1987) Page 117.
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Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist 1811–1886Related quotes
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Non exiguum temporis habemus, sed multum perdidimus. Satis longa vita.
De Brevitate Vitae ("On the Shortness of Life", trans. John W. Basore), Ch. 1
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