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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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. – Mark Twain

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Man was made at the end of the weeks work when God was tired. – Mark Twain

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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. – Thomas Helm

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Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh. – Judah Ibn Tibbon

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Far more seemly were it for thee to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money. – John Lyly

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I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read Just Kids and its an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies. – James Iha

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There is always a way to be honest without being brutal. – Arthur Dobrin

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