Owls Rule the Roost! ; Night Birds May Sleep Late and Stay Up All Hours but, Speaking As One of Them, I Can Say We're Happier and Richer Than Early-Rising Larks
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EARLY to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.' So wrote the great philosopher and scientist Benjamin Franklin two centuries ago - and so right thinking men and women have been saying ever since.
It is common wisdom - at least in our society - that being up with the dawn, doing a day's hard work and then retiring at a godly hour with a cup of Horlicks is the key to success.See the full content of this document
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Owls Rule the Roost! ; Night Birds May Sleep Late and Stay Up All Hours but, Speaking As One of Them, I Can Say We're Happier and Richer Than Early-Rising Larks
From early childhood, we owls those of us who don't really get into our stride until the early evening - have suffered persecution by self-righteous larks.
But science has come to our rescue. A tendency to burn the midnight oil, we learned this week, is literally in our genes.A study at the Science ...See the full content of this document
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