A small gold trophy rests on a rumpled cream pillow in warm morning light.

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Thomas Jefferson

The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker claims that for fifty years the sunrise has never found them still in bed. It is a proud statement about disciplined early rising, sustained over decades. By the speaker's own account, they have always been up and active before daylight arrived, treating it almost as an achievement.

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