City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.
A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.
When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.
Time is a resource, much like money or autonomy, which can be invaluable or can be squandered.
Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.
'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard.
Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.
City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.