OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 31:20

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Healthy sleep comes from moderate eating. He rises early, and his wits are with him. The pain of wakefulness, colic, and griping are with an insatiable man.

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Verse 20. First. Yet not too soon, lest the others should seem to be gluttons. Calmet.

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