“He that hath once got the fame of an early riser, may sleep till noon.”

—  James Howell

Source: [Howell, James, Epistolae Ho-Elianae, https://books.google.com/books?id=v79CAAAAcAAJ&q=%22till%20noon%22, Google Books, 1655 Edition, 20 September 2016]

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Anglo-Welsh historian and writer 1594–1666

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