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Quote by Jonathan Swift
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. – Jonathan Swift

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The school-boy doesnt force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning. – Hermann Ebbinghaus

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Ive found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. Its ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel. – Brit Marling

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I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness. – Carl Hiaasen

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You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, Mick, its time to get yourself a new spoon. And you do. – Mick Jagger

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