Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement a…

Mark Twain
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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
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