No man practises so well as he writes. I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic

Comment (14 Sep 1773), in James Boswell, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)
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