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The Five Boons of Life, The Original Short Story (Annotated): Masterpiece Collection: The Five Boons of Life, Mark Twain Famous Quotes, Book List, and Biography
Mark Twain
Paperback. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2015-10-31.
ISBN 9781518869952
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(The Five Boons of Life, Mark Twain) Includes: 100 famous quotes of Mark Twain, Complete bibliography of Mark Twain, Biography of Mark Twain, In the morning of life came a good fairy with her basket, and said: "Here are gifts. Take one, leave the others. And be wary, chose wisely; oh, choose wisely! for only one of them is valuable." The gifts were five: Fame, Love, Riches, Pleasure, Death. The youth said, eagerly: "There is no need to consider"; and he chose Pleasure. He went out into the world and sought out the pleasures that youth delights in. But each in its turn was short-lived and disappointing, vain and empty; and each, departing, mocked him. In the end he said: "These years I have wasted. If I could but choose again, I would choose wisely
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