<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355264" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Time Spent In Dress</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In many a lecture, many a book,<br>You all have heard, you all have read,<br>That time is precious. Of its use<br>Much has been written, much been said.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The accomplishments which gladden life,<br>As music, drawing, dancing, are<br>Encroachers on our precious time;<br>Their praise or dispraise I forbear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>They should be practised or forborne,<br>As parents wish, or friends desire:<br>What rests alone in their own will<br>Is all I of the young require.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>There's not a more productive source<br>Of waste of time to the young mind<br>Than dress; as it regards our hours<br>My view of it is now confined.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Without some calculation, youth<br>May live to age and never guess,<br>That no one study they pursue<br>Takes half the time they give to dress.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Write in your memorandum-book<br>The time you at your toilette spend;<br>Then every moment which you pass,<br>Talking of dress with a young friend:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>And ever when your silent thoughts<br>Have on this subject been intent,<br>Set down as nearly as you can<br>How long on dress your thoughts were bent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>If faithfully you should perform<br>This task, 'twould teach you to repair<br>Lost hours, by giving unto dress<br>Not more of time than its due share.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Lamb">Charles Lamb</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355264" data-title="Time Spent In Dress de Charles Lamb" data-description="In many a lecture, many a book, You all have heard, you all have read, That time is precious. Of its use Much has been written, much been said. The accomplishments which gladden life, As music, drawing, dancing, are Encroachers on our precious t..."></div> </div> </div>

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