Sleep is a most capricious divinity, and it is exactly when you invoke her that she refuses to come. - Alexandre Dumas (Twenty Years After Book Quotes)

Sleep is a most capricious divinity, and it is exactly when you invoke her that she refuses to come.[Le sommeil est une divinité fort capricieuse, et c’est justement lorsqu’on l’invite qu’elle se fait attendre.]

Source:(ed. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1898), Chapter XXI, Page 177
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