More from Mark Twain
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
More Maxims of Mark (1927) edited by Merle JohnsonI didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Mark Twain on reading
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. 194
