“I don't know anything that mars a good literature so completely as too much truth. Facts contain a great deal of poetry,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers; and I was in a sweat to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Say, do we kill the women too?" "Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on. Kill… — mark twain Copy Share Image
“My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more, merely for the reason that when I was a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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