Hour
The hour (common symbol: h or hr) is a unit of measurement of time. In modern usage, an hour comprises 60 minutes, or 3,600 seconds. It is approximately 1/24 of a mean solar day.
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Famous quotes containing the word hour:
“We should not say that one mans hour is worth another mans hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most times carcass.”
—Karl Marx (18181883)
“An hour of winter day might seem too short
To make it worth lifes while to wake and sport.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“A walking shadow, a poor player,
that struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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