"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

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.
~ Mark Twain ~












I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had n...
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"Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
"I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
"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, ...
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"Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
"They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever.
"I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.
"Yes, King Edward VI lived only a few years, poor boy, but he lived them worthily.
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"Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man....
"I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn't no use. I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead.