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Today's reading was edited and adapted from

Gaining the Round Above,

A Guide to Personal Efficiency by Gustavis S. Kimball,

published in 1918.

A wise philosopher once said,

Time is the stuff that life is made of.

Many people waste a great deal of time on trivialities,

instead of putting their work where it will matter.

When Dreyxilius was asked by a friend how he managed to accomplish so much, he replied,

The year has 365 days, or 8,760 hours. In so many hours great things can be done.

The slow tortoise made a long journey by losing no time.

The best way of all to have time is to form the habit of regular work, not to work by

fits and starts, but indefinite hours of the day, and to work

six days of the week, not five and not seven. Successful women and men never waste time. They

shape everything to a system, and do have no system, to do things in a half-hazard way, is to abuse time.

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