Mark Twain: Zitate auf Englisch

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“What's the use you learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?”

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Mark Twain buch Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Quelle: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.”

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Mark Twain

“Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects."”

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Mark Twain buch A Horse's Tale

Acknowledgements
Twain does not quote Herodotus here, he only sums up what he believes to have been Herodotus' approach to the writing of history. Nevertheless, this apocryphal statement is now often quoted as being the very words of Herodotus.
A Horse's Tale (1907)

“How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.”

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Mark Twain

Quelle: The Diaries of Adam and Eve

“Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.”

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Mark Twain buch Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Quelle: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”

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Mark Twain

“You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.”

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Mark Twain buch Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Quelle: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.”

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Mark Twain

Quelle: Joan of Arc

“The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.”

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Mark Twain zitat: “The average man don't like trouble and danger.”

“The average man don't like trouble and danger.”

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Mark Twain buch Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Quelle: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell together, as quickly as possible.”

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“Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.”

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Mark Twain buch Ein Yankee am Hofe des König Artus

Quelle: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court