The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed…

Samuel Johnson
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning. ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, p.401
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning. ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, p.401

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