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• I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks. -- Totie Field
• I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I lost two weeks.
  -- Joe E. Lewi...
• I went on a diet, cut out drinking, cut out smoking, cut out eating, cut out all my bad habits, and in fourteen days, I lost a full two weeks.
  -- Joe E. Lewis, 1902-1971...
• My only books Were woman's looks,-- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- The Time I 've lost in wooing...
• I(ve) B(een) M(islead)
• The light that lies In woman's eyes. -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- The Time I 've lost in wooing
• I 've lost a day!"--the prince who nobly cried, Had been an emperor without his crown.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) - Night Thoughts, Night ii, Line 99...
• When I 'm not thank'd at all, I 'm thank'd enough; I 've done my duty, and I 've done no more.
  -- Henry Fielding (1707-1754) -- Tom Thumb the Great, Act i, Sc. 3...
• All requests for sick leave must be approved two weeks in advance.