sleep before midnight
Example Sentences
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I’m a new mother — my baby is nearly 7 months old — so I went to sleep before midnight on New Year’s Eve and woke up at around 6 a.m. the next day.
From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2022
I believe that earlier sleep, before midnight, is better.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2016
Sleep.—One hour's sleep before midnight is worth two after.—Fielding.
From Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age by Klopsch, Louis
Whence the common remark, that one hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after that hour, is actually true to a certain extent.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 321, July 5, 1828 by Various
That is the significance of the old teaching that sleep before midnight is more efficacious than sleep after midnight.
From How to Use Your Mind A Psychology of Study: Being a Manual for the Use of Students and Teachers in the Administration of Supervised Study by Kitson, Harry D.
