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Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude

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Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because they know that, without the external discipline of clock time, they would never get anything done.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Wystan Hugh (W H) Auden |

The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | C C Colton |

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.

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