Jane Austen? Why I go so far as to say that any library is a good library that does not contain a volume by Jane Austen. Even if it contains no other book.
Mark Twain
Twain disliked a whole bunch of significant writers. Poe, Henry James.
> “Jane Austen? Why I go so far as to say that any library is a good library that does not contain a volume by Jane Austen. Even if it contains no other book.” [Mark Twain]
Funny remark, but dumb assessment of the writer herself.
> Dog is man’s best friend... [tag]
“Outside of a dog a book is a man’s best friend, inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” [Groucho Marx]