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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