Homer/period

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    Mere dreams, mere dreams! Yet Homer had not sung
    Had he not found it certain beyond dreams
    That out of life’s own self-delight had sprung
    The abounding glittering jet....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavour to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)