Misattributed <br class="br">Variante: Don’t believe the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. <br class="br">Quelle: Often attributed to Twain, but sourced to Robert J. Burdette, Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/06/06/world-owes/

“In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man”

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Mark Twain

“If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.”

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Mark Twain

“Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.”

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Mark Twain

Quelle: Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings
Quelle: Mark Twain's Notebook (1935), p. 381

“One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.”

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Mark Twain buch Die Arglosen im Ausland

Quelle: The Innocents Abroad

“What's your name?"
"Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer."
"That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?"
"Yes”

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Mark Twain buch The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Quelle: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.”

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Mark Twain

“I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.”

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Mark Twain

Quelle: Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings

“Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.”

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Mark Twain buch The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Variante: To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
Quelle: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Ch. 22.

“Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.”

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Mark Twain

“We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read”

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Mark Twain buch Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Quelle: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.”

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Mark Twain

“It's not as bad as it sounds.”

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