#punctual

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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Punctuality is the politeness of kings. ↗

— Louis XVIII

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If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own. ↗

— Richard Cecil

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Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. ↗

— Don Marquis

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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

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The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

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Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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Punctuality is the soul of business. ↗

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie? ↗

— Billy Wilder

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