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“It was a favourite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Theophrastus. x.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 48f07b4d3ba4fcc5543644614a1f3ee9179ffa09f1b34d2a2994e67dc548c620
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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