“Time is the wisest counsellor of all.”
Pericles (-494–-429 BC) Greek statesman, orator, and general of Athens
“Time is the wisest counselor of all.”
— Pericles
As quoted in Until Tomorrow Comes (1979) by Orville E. Kelly, p. 160
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