Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

-- William Hazlitt 威廉·哈兹里特

在我们的约会中，没有什么比守时更容易疏远友谊的了。我曾多次违背吃饭或吃饭的诺言，与不止一个亲密的人分手。

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If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.

如果你和某人一起变老，你会经历很多角色——你是爱人、朋友、敌人、同事、陌生人;你们是兄妹。这就是亲密，如果你和你的灵魂伴侣在一起。

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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

他们很快就陷入了一种从未恢复的亲密关系。

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Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

宁早三小时，不迟一分钟。

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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

守时是无聊之人的美德。

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