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Reader Quotes by Mark Twain
- I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children; the…
- 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…
- 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…
- The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.
- You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.
- If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.
- Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
- I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but…
- The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the…
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