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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

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way. – Mark Twain

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Cats
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Mark Twain
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I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary. – Mark Twain

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Horses
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Mark Twain
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Other Quotes from
Literature
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Literature is the question minus the answer. – Roland Barthes

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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

Literature is news that stays news. – Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading, 1934

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Literature

The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight. – Samual McChord Crothers

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Literature

Random Quotes

Life is a long process of getting tired. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Life

No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Love

I never doubted that I would work, and every time I went to an audition, I went into the room with the knowledge that I was going to get the part. Ninety-nine times out of 100, I didnt. – Busy Philipps

Category:
Knowledge

In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations. – Jeff Goodell

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Government