“I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul’s good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.”
Source: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 2, p. 11
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