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By John Quincy Adams
My custom is, to read four or five chapters every morning, immediately after rising from my bed. It employs about an hour of my time, and seems to me the most suitable manner of beginning the day.
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- Letters of John Quincy Adams, to his son, on the Bible and its teachings, 1848 · pp. 11-12 (Letter I)
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- Internet Archive (scan of the 1848 first edition, Auburn, N.Y.: Derby, Miller & Co.)
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From the first of John Quincy Adams's letters to his son George Washington Adams on the Bible, written from St. Petersburg in September 1811 and published as Letters of John Quincy Adams, to His Son, on the Bible and Its Teachings (Auburn, N.Y.: Derby, Miller & Co., 1848). He is describing his own habit of reading the Bible each morning.