Quote#Time
We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents
Quote byThomas Chandler Haliburton · 1796–1865
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Clockmaker (1838), Ch. 2, p. 10. Compare: "Remember that time is money" in "Advice to a Young Tradesman" (1748) by Benjamin Franklin.
English (original)
We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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