1,497. Sleep "If, as some have done, we consider it [sleep] as the tax of life, we cannot but observe it as a tax that must be paid, unless we would cease to be men." Johnson: Adventurer #39 (March 20, 1753) Link 1,498. Sleep "To live without sleep in our present fluctuating state, however desirable it might seem to the lady in Clelia, can surely be the wish only of the young or ignorant; to every one else, a perpetual vigil will appear to be a state of wretchedness, second only to that of the miserable beings, whom Swift has in his travels so elegantly described, as 'supremely cursed with immortality.'" Johnson: Adventurer #39 (March 20, 1753) Link 1,499. Sleep "Sleep, therefore, as the chief of all earthly blessings, is justly appropriated to industry and temperance; the refreshing rest, and the peaceful night, are the portion only o him who lies down weary with honest labour, and free from the fumes of indigested luxury; it is the just doom of laziness and gluttony, to be inactive without ease, and drowsy without tranquillity." Johnson: Adventurer #39 (March 20, 1753) Link