It takes your enemy and your friend working together to hurt you to the heart the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

Mark Twain
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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.

  2. When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

  3. Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

  4. The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

  5. Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

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