“Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost”

— George Horne

Bishop George Horne, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 583.

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English churchman, writer and university administrator 1730–1792

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