The Damsel of the Three Skirts (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Damsel of the Three SkirtsConsequently, should you live to be sixty, you will have given twenty years to slumber. Frankly now, do you not think that it is too much? Ah, I already hear you saying, Why, monsieur, one doesn't sleep all night without awakening, I never have eight hours' sleep.So be it, I am willing to admit it. Then, in place of twenty years' sleep I will credit you with fifteen, still, is not even that a good deal of time to lose?Sleep, says Montaigne, sti¿es and sup presses the faculties of the mind.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.