"Good friends, good books and a sleepy..." - Quote by Mark Twain
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
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“So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.”
“Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.”
“Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.”
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“This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it.”
“We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.”
“Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.”
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“To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.”
“Even people who believe they deserve to be happy and have nice things often don't feel worthy once they have them.”
“When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”