“If you can't sleep with your own wife wearing a false beard, what can you do?”
John Mortimer (1923–2009) English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author
Source: Where There's a Will: Thoughts on the Good Life (2003), Ch. 20 : Law or Justice
“" I am carrying so much cotton that I can't sleep thinking about it. It is wearing me out. What can I do?"
" Sell down to the sleeping point," answered the friend.”
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter X, p. 112
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