My Time, and What I've Done With It: An Autobiography, Compiled From the Diary, Notes, and Personal Recollections of Cecil Colvin, Son of Sir John Colvin, Bart;, Of the Late Firm of Colvin, Cavander Co (Classic Reprint)

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I began life with punctuality.

My nurse Davis - an authority to be trusted implicitly in such a matter - has often said that no infant as she'd ever known, and she'd known a many, had ever been so satisfactory in regard, as it were, to keeping an appointment, as I had been. The other nurse, a temporary official called in for the important occasion, expressed herself as under a personal obligation to me, on account of her having a pressure of business on hand at the time. In fact, I had been as nicely calculated as a comet, and came exactly to the minute. I fancy that this must have exhausted at one effort my powers of accuracy and precision. I can honestly affirm, that, since the first day of my existence, I have never been noted for my punctuality, nor have I ever been able to acquire those habits which the world calls business-like, and which, I am ready to admit, however much it may tell against me, are of the very essence of respectability. Commerce and trade go to make up that business-like body of Respectability, whereof the soul is Punctuality.

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