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Mark Twain Quotes about Literature

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The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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.

Mark Twain, Harriet Elinor Smith (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition”, p.44, Univ of California Press

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.104, Book Tree

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.385, Courier Corporation

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.

Mark Twain (1969). “Mark Twain's Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, 1893-1909”, p.386, Univ of California Press

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Following the Equator ch. 7, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897) See Edmund Burke 25

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

Mark Twain, Michael Barry Frank, Robert Pack Browning, Lin Salamo, Frederick Anderson, Mark Twain (1980). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)”, p.172, Univ of California Press

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.151, University of Missouri Press

In literature imitations do not imitate.

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.246, Courier Corporation

Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.79, St. Martin's Press

All right, then, I'll go to hell.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ch. 31 (1884)