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Full many a day for ever is lost / By delaying its work till to-morrow; / The minutes of sloth have often cost / Long years of bootless sorrow.
Full many a day for ever is lost / By delaying its work till to-morrow; / The minutes of sloth have often cost / Long years of bootless sorrow.
Approximate author period: c. 1817 AD · industrial
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- Author or tradition
- Eliza Cook
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- Approximate author period: c. 1817 AD · industrial
documented author birth year (1817)
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Eliza Cook. · page_117
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