Early to rise and early to bed makes a male…

Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.

Sourced, From Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time

“The Shrike and the Chipmunks”, The New Yorker (18 February 1939); Fables for Our Time & Famous Poems Illustrated (1940). Because it is derived from Benjamin Franklin ’s famous saying this is often misquoted as: Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.

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