Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of.
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Time is not merely what life contains. It is what life is made from.
That is what gives the line its force. Franklin does not speak about time management as efficiency theater, but as stewardship of something that cannot be replaced once spent.
The sentence endures because it feels proportionate to reality. A human life is built out of days, not abstractions.
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