“I ’ve lost a day!”—the prince who nobly cried, Had been an emperor without his crown.1
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Night Thoughts. Night ii. Line 99.
Note 1. Suetonius says of the Emperor Titus: “Once at supper, reflecting that he had done nothing for any that day, he broke out into that memorable and justly admired saying, ‘My friends, I have lost a day!’”—Suetonius: Lives of the Twelve Cæsars. (Translation by Alexander Thomson.) [back]
