Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

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"On Time"

John Milton

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Anthony Esolen
Jul 19, 2023
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“Time is money,” people have been saying in English for at least 300 years, but I prefer what the strangely perspicacious little boy in Dickens’ Dombey and Son said to that man of business who begot him: “Father, what is money?” And the father was taken aback. He pulled up short, and then he told him, with great seriousness, though the boy did not und…

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