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Quote by Mark Twain
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the idea

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. – Mark Twain

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No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done. – Mark Twain

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Grammar
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Mark Twain
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My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart — a heart so large that everybody’s joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. – Mark Twain

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Mothers
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Mark Twain
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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. – Mark Twain

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Freedom
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The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary. – Italo Calvino

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Books

In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit? – Aubrey Beardsley

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Books

Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. – Author unknown

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Books

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. – Logan Pearsall Smith, Trivia, 1917

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Books

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It may be that we shall, by a process of sublime irony, have reached a stage in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation. – Sir Winston Churchill

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We have mountain of debt that isnt going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road. – Rick Santelli

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The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. – George Eliot

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One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him. – Chinese Proverb

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