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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

Man – a creature made at the end of the weeks work when God was tired. – Mark Twain

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God
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Mark Twain
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Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all. – Mark Twain

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Jewelry
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Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place. – Mark Twain

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Humor
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Other Quotes from
Literature
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. – Ezra Pound

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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

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. – E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

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Literature

Literature is the question minus the answer. – Roland Barthes

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Literature

Random Quotes

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life. – Christopher Lasch

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Family

I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy. – Jesse Jackson

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Peace

Its not that we fly by the seat of our pants. Were not afraid of failure. – Craig Ferguson

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Failure

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. – John F. Kennedy

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History