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• Half an hour of sleep three or four times in the twenty- four hours was all he needed in those days, when one invention succeeded another with dazzling rapidity, and when he worked with the fierce, eruptive energy of a great volcano, throwing out new ideas incessantly with spectacular effect on the arts to which they related. —  Edison, His Life and Inventions
• Her flesh warmed around him as the hours were achingly chiselled away, and when at last she rose from the bed she was actually glowing faintly, like the bricks lining a smithy's stove. —  Tim Powers - The Stress of Her Regard
• Ten or eleven feedings for twenty-four hours are all a child will bear and remain healthy. —  Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage
• "I shall be home to-morrow," the letter had gone on to say, "but I will not keep you waiting for dinner, as my hours are always so uncertain. —  Orley Farm
• Of all the weird experiences I ever had, that twenty-four hours was the weirdest. —  A Woman's Impression of the Philippines

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