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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

Category:
Happiness
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Mark Twain
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A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. – Mark Twain

Category:
Banks / Banking
Author
Mark Twain
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We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground. – Mark Twain

Category:
Baby, Babies
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Mark Twain
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Other Quotes from
Literature
category

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

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

Category:
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

Category:
Literature

The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference. – Anatole France

Category:
Literature

Random Quotes

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring. – Richard Baxter

Category:
Danger

Dont fight forces, use them. – Richard Buckminster Fuller

Category:
architecture

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order. – Jawaharlal Nehru

Category:
Peace

I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I dont think you can think about that. I dont think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny. – Christopher Walken

Category:
funny