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Classic Quotes by Mark Twain
- A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
- I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on…
- 'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
- Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
- Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.
- Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?
- 'Classic'- A book in which people praise but do not read.
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