More from Mark Twain
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Quoting or paraphrasing a Professor Winchester in “Disappearance of Literature”, speech at the Nineteenth Century Club, New York, 20 November 1900, in Mark Twain’s Speeches (1910), ed. William Dean Howells, p. 194Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
More Maxims of Mark (1927) edited by Merle Johnson
More about nature
Aristotle384–322 BCPolitics, Book I, 1253a.8Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
