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Reading Quotes by Mark Twain
- A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
- 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 best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.
- It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as…
- 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…
- There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the…
- I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than…
- 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…
- By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently interested; don't know…
- I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and…
- Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
- A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
- Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
- 'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
- The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without…
- 'Classic'- A book in which people praise but do not read.
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- Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column. — Dave Barry
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