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Time (n.) carries ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠us through every day of an unillustrious life, until the moment comes when we have to carry it.

Time (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠jail makes days at once long and short — long to live through, but so distended they overlap, until only 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' keep any meaning.

Time (n.) can ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be measured in pans of dried peas: every fifteen pans, it's feeding-time; watches are silly gadgets, and dear at that.

Time (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not wasted if you feel every minute of it: sit in a dentist's waiting-room, stand on the slowest tram, queue for the theatre and then don't book a seat.

Time (n.) never ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠went fast enough during separation and should be slowed on reunion: this hour of joy owes us compensation at half the speed of all that waiting.