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“Lost time is never found again.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? is not this also a return?”
Epictetus
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all”
Samuel Butler
“For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time”
George Sutherland
“Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?”
John Keats
“It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.”
David Hume
“It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all”
James Thurber
“Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends... with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!”
Marquis De Sade
“Come forth, Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job.”
James Joyce
“Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.”
Dr. Seuss
