• Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

    Charles Caleb Colton: Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.238

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