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Mark Twain
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain
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“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln
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“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
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“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders
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