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Washington Irving Quotes: No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.
         

No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.


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