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Quote by Wilson Mizner
The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes

The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more. – Wilson Mizner

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…rousing himself from a reverie, which had degenerated into an absolute snooze. – Thomas Ingoldsby, “The Spectre of Tappington,” 1837

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Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Somnus lets her poppies fall most plentifully on those having a cool head, an empty stomach, tired muscles, a quiet conscience, and warm feet. – Author unknown, quoted by Rachel Brooks Gleason, “Sleep,” 1867

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The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation. – Angela Carter

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