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Directory of Mark Twain's maxims, quotations, and various opinions:

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CLASSIC

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
- The Disappearance of Literature speech, 1900

Classic: a book which people praise and don't read.
- Following the Equator, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar

Bantam poster
16" x 25" promotional poster
for a 1985 release of Bantam Twain classics.
From the Dave Thomson collection.

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