"Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

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












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