Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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There's more to a good night's rest than going to bed early. Sleeping comes easiest and lasts longest for the wealthy, white, and female. Reporting her findings in the June 1 American Journal of Epidemiology, health-…
Early to rise and early to bed, makes a male healthy, wealthy, and dead.
James Thurber
Serbian version goes something like this:
"He who wakes up early, catches two lucks"
which we always changed to:
"He who wakes up early, yawns all day"