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Quote by Mark Twain
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobod

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. – Mark Twain

Other quotes by Mark Twain

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot. – Mark Twain

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Birds
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We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. – Mark Twain

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Rainbows
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Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. – Mark Twain

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God
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Other Quotes from
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Literature is news that stays news. – Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading, 1934

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Literature

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us! – James Russell Lowell

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Literature

The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

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Literature
[L]iterature is a garden of weeds as well as flowers… – Henry Hallam, Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteen

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Literature

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