Whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun. ✨ Thomas J…

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Whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States, p.321
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