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1 " After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her. "
― Mark Twain , The Diaries of Adam and Eve
2 " When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. "
― Mark Twain , Mark Twain's Notebook
3 " Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. "
― Mark Twain
4 " Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. "
5 " Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living. "
6 " Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. "
― Mark Twain , Life on the Mississippi
7 " I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. "
8 " Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. "
9 " Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. "
10 " I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened. "
11 " Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. "
12 " I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty. "
13 " There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that. "
14 " Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well. "
15 " Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. "
16 " I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. "
17 " I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know. "
18 " What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce. "
19 " When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. "
20 " I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. "
