“So precious life is! Even to the old
The hours are as a miser’s coins!”

Broken Music; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Variant: So precious life is! Even to the old the hours are as a miser’s coins!

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American poet, novelist, editor 1836–1907

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