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Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise

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  1. A saying of Benjamin Franklin in Poor Richard's Almanack.


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"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise," wrote Benjamin Franklin in his Poor Richard's Almanack.

From Science Magazine Dec. 8, 2011

Such as: "Haste makes waste"; "Well done is better than well said"; and "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."

From The Child's Book of American Biography by Stimpson, Mary Stoyell

Drive thy business, let not that drive thee; and, Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise, as Poor Richard says.

From True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin by Pierce, H. Winthrop

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

From Graded Memory Selections by Hughes, Charles C.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Young, Daniel

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