“The discovery of a corpse's head on campus has worked as an expedient in getting the administrative staff to work before ten, despite the impending blizzard.”

“Poirot thought it not quite professional to begin a routine working day before ten.”

“Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.”

“Ninety percent of paid work is time-wasting crap. The world gets by on the other ten.”

“What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to listen in class. Laziness is not the issue. It is just not the work dictated by the administration.”

“You should never lie till ten. There's the very prime of the morning long gone before that time. A person who has not done one half of his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”