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When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything.

Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States (1903). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson”

Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James MARSH (D.D.) (1829). “Aids to reflection, in the formation of a manly character ... illustrated by select passages ... especially from Archbishop Leighton ... First American, from the first London edition ... Together with a preliminary essay, and additional notes, by James Marsh”, p.1

My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Susan J. Wolfson, Ronald Levao (2012). “The Annotated Frankenstein”, p.66, Harvard University Press

Being a woman in music and having kids, it's very hard to do both without neglecting one a bit.

"Rufus and Martha Wainwright on Family Memories, Jealousy, and Fame". Interview with Miranda Siegel, www.vulture.com. February 19, 2013.

You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.

Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.

John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

She had made him possible. In that sense she was his god. Like God, she was neglected.

Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.28, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be?

H. Rider Haggard (2015). “Allan Quatermain: Mystery & Adventure Story”, p.169, 谷月社