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Book Quotes by Mark Twain
- I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it.…
- The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However…
- People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
- You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder…
- I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than…
- Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use…
- Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They…
- There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon…
- Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands that the brother…
- As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its…
- We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.
- The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.
- If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them -- you can't help…
- A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect…
- Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of…
- I like a thin book because it will Steady a Table, a leather volume because it will Strop a Razor, and a heavy book because…
- Books are the liberated spirits of men.
- Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass…
- Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book…
- In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which…
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- No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that.… — Paul Auster
- The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman Catholic monk.… — Swami Vivekananda
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