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Men spend their lives in anticipations,__n determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other__t is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Men spend their lives in anticipations,__n determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other__t is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

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