Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
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I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time...
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The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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Punctuality is the soul of business.
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He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
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Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.
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Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.
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Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.
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As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity, and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world around you
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If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.
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Punctuality is the thief of time. Wilde I never travel without my diary. One should always have Something sensational to read in the train.
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Laugh and the world laughs with you, be prompt and you dine alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, but has trouble enough of its own.
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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
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Punctuality is the thief of time.
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The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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The while we keep a man waiting, he reflects on our shortcomings.
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People count the faults of those who keep them waiting.
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