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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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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. – Mark Twain

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Books
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Mark Twain
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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you dont want, drink what you dont like, and do what youd rather not. – Mark Twain

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Health
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Literature is the question minus the answer. – Roland Barthes

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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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Literature

The extent of a palace is measured from east to west, or from north to south; but that of a literary work, from the earth to heaven; so that there may be found as much range and power of mind in a few pages… as in a whole epic poem. – Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), translated from French by George H. Calvert, 1

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Literature

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

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Literature

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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions. – Dag Hammarskjold

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Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense. – William Hague

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