Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
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Well-used time creates a calmer future. Disorder in the day has a way of charging interest later.
This is not the language of hustle. It is the language of proportion. Franklin sees that freedom is often protected by timely effort rather than last-minute scrambling.
The line stays useful because it treats leisure as something earned by order, not merely wished for in exhaustion.
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