Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal li…

Mark Twain
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. ✨ Mark Twain (2015). Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend, p.28, St. Martin's Press
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. ✨ Mark Twain (2015). Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend, p.28, St. Martin's Press

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