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I ordinarily now rise by six in summer . I will allow you to be half an hour after me , or so . Then you 'll have some time you may call your own , till you give me your company to breakfast ; which may be always so , as that we may have done at a little after nine . Then will you have several hours again at your disposal , till two o'clock , when I shall like to sit down at table . You will then have several useful hours more to employ yourself in , as you shall best like ; and I would generally go to supper by eight ; and when we are resolved to stick to these oldfashioned rules , as near as we can , we shall have our visitors conform to them too , and expect them from us , and suit themselves accordingly : For I have always observed , that it is in every one 's power to prescribe rules to himself . It is only standing a few ridiculous jests at first , and that too from such , generally , as are not the most worthy to be minded ; and , after a while , they will say , It signifies nothing to ask him : he will have his own way . There is no putting him out of his bias .