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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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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. – Mark Twain

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No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done. – Mark Twain

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The sermon is now the true poppy of literature. – David Swing

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

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