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

Other quotes by Mark Twain

We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves. – Mark Twain

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Self
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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities Truth isnt. – Mark Twain

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When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign — a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they dont want to hear the word mentioned. – Italo Calvino

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Books are embalmed minds. – Bovee

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I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things. – George Robert Gissing

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The mere brute pleasure of reading — the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. – Lord Chesterfield

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The spiritual is the parent of the practical. – Thomas Carlyle

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. – Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark, 1915

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There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into chaos and confusion. – Mark van Doren

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Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation. – Gouverneur Morris

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