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“His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.”

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Mark Twain buch Ein Yankee am Hofe des König Artus

Quelle: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.”

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“Golf is a good walk spoiled.”

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"Twain probably never uttered [these] words," according to R. Kent Rasmussen, editor of The Quotable Mark Twain (1998).
"To play golf is to spoil an otherwise enjoyable walk" is found in H.S. Scrivener, "Memories of Men and Meetings" https://books.google.com/books?id=cYgCAAAAYAAJ&q=dicta#v=snippet&q=dicta&f=false, in Arthur Wallis Myers (ed.) Lawn Tennis at Home and Abroad New York:Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1903, p. 47. Scrivener attributes the aphorism to "my good friends the Allens". Reference from Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/28/golf-good-walk.
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“But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man’s best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.”

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“If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won't sit on a hot stove again. That cat won't sit on a cold stove either. That cat just don't like stoves.”

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“But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.”

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Mark Twain buch Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Quelle: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), Ch. 43.
Quelle: The Adventures of Huck Finn
Kontext: So there ain't nothing more to write about, and I am rotten glad of it, because if I'd a knowed what a trouble it was to make a book I wouldn't a tackled it and aint't agoing to no more. But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before.

“There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.”

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Mark Twain buch Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Quelle: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), Ch. 1.
Quelle: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Kontext: You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

“Don't you worry your pretty little mind. People throw rocks at things that shine and life makes love look hard”

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“How empty is theory in the presence of fact!”

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Mark Twain buch Ein Yankee am Hofe des König Artus

Quelle: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.”

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Mark Twain buch Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Quelle: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.”

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“[Whose_property]Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the State die? Oh no.”

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“Osteopathy” (1901), in Mark Twain's Speeches, p. 253 http://books.google.com/books?id=jmhaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA253&dq=%22Whose+property+is+my+body%22
Quelle: Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings

“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.”

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Quelle: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 (2010), p. 210.
Kontext: For many years I believed that I remembered helping my grandfather drink his whisky toddy when I was six weeks old, but I do not tell about that any more, now; I am grown old, and my memory is not as active as it used to be. When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying, now, and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the latter. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it.

“Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene”

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Mark Twain buch The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Quelle: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer