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00:00Sleep like a baby. To sleep deeply and well.
00:04I sleep like a baby.
00:06I'm gonna sleep like a baby.
00:08Sleeping like a baby, huh?
00:10That's right.
00:12Where does the saying sleep like a baby come from?
00:16After Bob Dole was defeated in the presidential campaign of 1996,
00:21he famously said,
00:23I slept like a baby.
00:25I woke up every three hours and cried.
00:28While babies don't sleep deeply,
00:30they do sleep peacefully and untroubled.