William Cabell Bruce: Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our…

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From the book John Randolph of Roanoke, John Randolph of Roanoke, 1773–1833, vol. 2, chapter 7, p. 205 (1922, reprinted 1970). Reported in United States Library of Congress, Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).