...be the greatest healer who has up to this age helped to make medicine immortal." The old proverb, ' Seven hours for a man, eight for a woman, and nine for a fool,' is not without exceptions. As renovation, re-creation, is what we have to seek, there may be an occasion...

...ability to do so to the large doses of sleep I have always taken in defiance of proverbial philosophy. ' Seven hours for a man, eight for a woman, and nine for a fool,' says the old saw, but I have always exceeded the fool's allowance. The great Napoleon could, we are...

...required. Here, again, we must be careful not to err. Everyone is, I suppose, familiar with the old rule, " Seven hours for a man, eight for a woman, and nine for a fool." It is a good rule. For certain highly-strung nervous natures, who lavishly pour out their feelings...

...arrears to make up, and sleep is a matter of idiosyncrasy. Mr. Gladstone used to say that the old rule of seven hours for a man, eight for a woman, and nine for a fool, was the silliest piece of absurdity ever framed ; and to a schoolmaster who has worked hard, long hours...

...proverbs are, as usual, at sea, and have about the usual amount of influence over actual practice. "Seven hours for a man, eight for a woman, and nine for a fool," has been their dictum for centuries, but the average human being cheerfully plunks himself into the...

...ability to do so to the large doses of sleep I have always taken in defiance of proverbial philosophy. ' Seven hours for a man, eight for a woman, and nine for a fool,' says the old saw, but I have always exceeded the fool's allowance. The great Napoleon could, we are...

...proverbs are, as usual, at sea, and have about the usual amount of influence over actual practice. 'Seven hours for a man, eight for a woman and nine for a fool' has been their dictum for centuries, but the average human being cheerfully plunks himself into the...