num_pages: 26
description: (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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title: The Five Boons of Life
publisher: Xlibris Corporation