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

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Franklin published it in Poor Richard's Almanack, where the lines were framed as the advice of an imaginary printer's devil, and the joke is that worldly self-interest was dressed up as a moral. The proverb has outlived its framing because it is advice anyone can afford to give away.

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack, 1735

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