'Never put off tomorrow what you can do today. ' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I … - J. A. Spender

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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

J. A. Spender

'Never put off tomorrow what you can do today. ' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop into today's and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.

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We all denounce bores, but while we do so, let us remember that there is nobody who isn't a bore to somebody.

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