Charles Buxton

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Charles Buxton (18 November 1822 – 10 August 1871) was an English brewer, philanthropist, writer and member of Parliament.

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You will never find time for anything. If you want time, then you must make it.

—Charles Buxton

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You live on from year's end to year's end, surrounded by those whom you love, and chatting together; but it is rare to be thrown alone with any one individual and have [a] really intimate talk with him or her. . . . Unless some effort is made for it, or unless circumstances are unusually favorable, the very members of the same family live, one might say, on parallel lines, without ever touching.

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To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.

—Charles Buxton

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