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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

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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. – Mark Twain

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Mark Twain
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What a wee little part of a persons life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. – Mark Twain

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

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Literature

The object of literature is to make man a wiser and happier being. The poet makes us happy because he tells us how we may become so. – Charles Lanman, “Thoughts on Literature,” 1840

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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

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Literature

To literature belongs the mighty privilege of embalming, for all ages, the departed kings of intellect. There they repose within the eternal pyramids of their fame. – Robert Aris Willmott, “Glimpses of the Pageant of Literature,” c.1844

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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. – Gustave Flaubert

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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense. – James Madison

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