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's Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, 1893-1909 (ed. Univ of California Press, 1969) - ISBN: 9780520905061

Mark Twain Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.