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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

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. – Mark Twain

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Happiness
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Mark Twain
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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. – Mark Twain

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work
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Mark Twain
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To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. – Mark Twain

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Life
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Other Quotes from
Literature
category

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

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Literature

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. – Clifton Fadiman

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Literature

I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart. – Richard Livingstone

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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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The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry

The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow Operation Re-elect Bush doesnt seem to be popular. – Jay Leno

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War

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Learning

A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I dont have the patience to learn. – David Wilkerson

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Age