What does it matter even if [a man] stays in bed at eight o’clock? A thousand times better that he should provide himself with a good tin of cigarettes on his bedside table and take plenty of time to get up from bed and solve all his problems of the day before he brushes his teeth . . . in that comfortable position, he can ponder over his achievements and mistakes of yesterday and single out the important from the trivial in the day’s programme ahead of him. Better that he arrive at ten o’clock in his office and master of himself than that he should come punctually at nine or even a quarter
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