'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.

When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in YOU than there was before.