“Time goes, you say? Ah, no!
Alas, Time stays, we go.”

—  Henry Austin Dobson

The Paradox of Time http://books.google.com/books?id=KW4NAAAAYAAJ&q="time+goes+you+say+ah+no+alas+time+stays+we+go"&pg=PA175#v=onepage (1886).

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English poet and essayist 1840–1921

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