[DOC] [TLE] Putting Words in Mark Twain's Mouth | RealClearPolitics [PAR] Dec 10, 2012 ... It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and 
remove all doubt. ... Classic -- a book which people praise and don't read. ... 
smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it. ... Mark 
Twain in Eruption points out, he did say: It is not worthwhile to try to... [DOC] [TLE] The Quotable Mark Twain - Salwen [PAR] Mark Twain defined a literary classic as "a book which people praise and don't 
read. ... Then come several attempts -- all heavily XXX-ed out -- to construct a ... 
he wrote, resignedly, "It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right. ... 
time he got it right -- which is why we still quote Twain today, 86 years after his 
death. [DOC] [TLE] Mark Twain Quotations | Richard's Notes [PAR] Apr 12, 2010 ... I'm starting with Mark Twain because we're coming up on the 100th ... A street in 
Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see oncenot oftener. ... Whatever 
a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a ..... Another man's, I 
mean. ... Classic: A book which people praise and don't read. [DOC] [TLE] The Legend of Mark Twain - Mark Twain Forum [PAR] He also witnessed several brutal murders in his hometown, Hannibal. ... After a 
ten year career as a printer the young Clemens decided in 1856 to try something 
new. .... One wrote about Twain: "He is a Bohemian from the sagebrush, a jail-
bird, ... His definition of a classic: "A book which people praise and don't read.". [DOC] [TLE] Mark Twain - Wikiquote [PAR] Josh Billings defined the difference between humor and wit as that between the 
... From a note Twain wrote in London on May 31, 1897 to reporter Frank ... He 
had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other 
person. ..... After all, the final test is truth. ..... A book which people praise and don'
t read. [DOC] [TLE] Introduction to Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom ... - NewSouth Books [PAR] An excerpt from the editor's introduction to Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom ... the 
two books has proceeded despite evidence that Twain wrote the opening ... A 
similar impulse led Twain to portray Huckleberry Finn (in Twain's summation in 
one ... he once humorously defined as those which people praise and don't read
,... [DOC] [TLE] Five Reasons to Read Tocqueville [PAR] Tocqueville's Democracy in America may well be the best book ever written 
about ... Second, Tocqueville wrote about America as an outsider and, as he 
reminds us many times ... Virginia Woolf said one reads one's diary from earlier in 
life with a kind of ... In fact, one definition of a classic is that it is useful even in its 
errors. [DOC] [TLE] Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by ... [PAR] Jun 1, 2009 ... The NOOK Book (eBook) of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Barnes & Noble 
... Mark Twain defined classic as "a book which people praise and don't read"; ... 
Finn one of the most loved and distinctly American classics ever written. .... He 
once said, "Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand. [DOC] [TLE] Mark Twain: not an American but the American | Sarah Churchwell ... [PAR] Oct 29, 2010 ... 'All American literature comes from one book . . . called Huckleberry Finn,' 
Hemingway declared. ... He did indeed decree that it should be withheld for 100 
years after .... In Twain's obituary, the San Francisco Examiner wrote that he was 
... autobiography  a favourite American genre, given its emphasis on... [DOC] [TLE] PBS - Mark Twain: Classroom Activities [PAR] In Part B, review the different types of humor listed. ... A book which people praise 
and don't read. ...

Question: Twain once defined this type of book (& he wrote several) as one "which people praise and don't read"
Answer: a classic