“Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.”
“He that hath once got the fame of an early riser, may sleep till noon.”
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 1594–1666Related quotes
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