Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, a…

Mark Twain
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Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide. ✨ Mark Twain (1897). More Tramps Abroad
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Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide. ✨ Mark Twain (1897). More Tramps Abroad

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