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

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WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS

Possibly you will not be a fully accepted classic until you have been dead a hundred years,--it is the fate of the Shakspeares & of all genuine prophets,--but then your books will be as common as Bibles, I believe. You ain't a weed, but an oak; you ain't a summer house, but a cathedral.
- Letter to W. D. Howells,
January 21, 1879


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You are really my only author; I am restricted to you; I wouldn't give a damn for the rest.
- Letter to W. D.Howells, July 21, 1885

Howells and Twain in bed
From PUCK, March 27, 1907


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