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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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. – Mark Twain

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I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command. – Francesco Petrarch

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Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one. – Augustine Birrell, Obiter Dicta, "Book Buying"

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Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book. – John Ruskin

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Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. – Jesse Lee Bennett

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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. – Jonathan Swift, A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind, 1707

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Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination. – Christina Ricci

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The face is the index of the mind. – Proverb

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