Time has nothing to do with the matter.
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
At least it's better to be married than to be dead.
The road is long fro the project to its completion.