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Samuel Johnson: Life, however short, is made shorter by waste of time; and its progress towards…

Life, however short, is made shorter by waste of time; and its progress towards happiness, though naturally slow, is made still slower by unnecessary labour.

In today’s wordsLife, however short, is made shorter by wasting time, and our progress toward happiness, though naturally slow, is made slower by unnecessary work.

Samuel JohnsonCommonly attributed
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From the book Quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources, compiled by James Wood, 1893

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