| Go to bed early, get up early--this is
wise. Some authorities say get up with one thing, some with another. But
a lark is really the best thing to get up with. It gives you a splendid
reputation with everybody to know that you get up with the lark; and if
you get the right kind of a lark, and work at him right, you can easily
train him to get up at half-past nine, every time--it is no trick at all. - Advice to Youth speech, April 15, 1882 |
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| Well enough for old folks to rise early,
because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep
anyhow. - Notebook, 1866 |
 Mark Twain statue by Gary Price in front of the Midland Theatre in downtown Newark, Ohio. Photo courtesy of Kevin Jones. |
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[I] turned in and slept like a log--I don't mean a brisk, fresh, green
log, but an old dead, soggy rotten one, that never turns over or gives
a yelp. I hate a man who goes to sleep at once; there is a sort of indefinable
something about it which is not exactly an insult, and yet is an insolence.
I got to feeling very lonely, with no company but an undigested dinner. |
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