All MARK TWAIN Quotes about “Literature”

“The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.”
“Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.”
“Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.”
“Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.”
“Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.”
“Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.”
“What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.”
“Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side”
“It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.”
“Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.”
“In literature imitations do not imitate.”
“High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.”
“Prosperity is the best protector of principle.”
“Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.”

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