The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
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Life   
Death   
Fear   
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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
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Silence   
Fool   
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Subject:
Friendship   
Life   
Books   
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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
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Happiness   
Life   
Age   
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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Subject:
Happiness   
Friendship   
Grief   
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The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Subject:
Friendship   
Life   
Money   
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Subject:
Success   
Confidence   
Ignorance   
Source: Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
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Fear   
Courage   
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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
Subject:
Love & Romance   
Men   
Women   
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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Subject:
Humor   
Facts   
Deception   
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