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- I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. — Ambrose Bierce
- Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. — Mark Twain
- Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. — Lord Byron
- Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. — Lord Byron
- Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. — Lord Byron