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    Polonius. My lord, I will take my leave of you.
    Hamlet. You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will not more willingly part withal—except my life, except my life, except my life.
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house, but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments. He bought, for example, a common edition of Horace, of which he tore off gradually a couple of pages, read them first, and then sent them down as a sacrifice to Cloacina: this was so much time fairly gained.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)