“4934. There is nothing more precious than Time, and nothing more prodigally wasted.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“There is nothing more precious than laughter”
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§ 70
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New York Times Magazine (7 December 1958).
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