“Contentment has been worn as a crown by no end of sleepy heads.”
Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 104
“Without a huge shock, the sleepy-head, ignorant Japanese will never wake up.”
Judit Kawaguchi, "Words to Live By: Hiroo Onoda"
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