Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel. ✨…

Samuel Johnson
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1787). The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ..., p.211
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1787). The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ..., p.211

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