Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with …

Charles Caleb Colton
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Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1836). Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think, p.292
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