“Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.”
The Common School Journal, Vol. V, No. 19 (2 October 1843)
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“If you can get yourself to read 30 minutes a day, you're going to double your income every year.”
"Contemporary Reminiscences" in Arts & Decoration, Vol. 26 (1927), p. 50

No. 41.
Seventy Resolutions (1722-1723)
“This is days and days and months and years and all the minutes in between, just you me.”
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1920s and later

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Source: Love Is the Higher Law