Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have… — Mark Twain

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World · 1897
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Twain, Mark. "Following the Equator." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 59.
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Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897, ch. 59.

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