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“The late Bill Nye once said "I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds."”
Quelle: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 (2010), p. 288
“Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.”
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Ein Yankee am Hofe des König Artus
Quelle: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889), Ch. 22
Quelle: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 (2013), p. 4
Quelle: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 3 (2015), p. 173, of Theodore Roosevelt
“Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.”
Quelle: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 (2013), p. 442
“It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young.”
Quelle: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 (2013), p. 120
“Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.”
Max Müller, India: What Can India Teach Us? (1883), p. 15 http://books.google.com/books?id=pIVDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA15&dq=%22most+valuable+and+most+instructive+materials+in+the+history+of+man+are+treasured+up+in+India%22
Misattributed
Notebook #42
Quelle: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 3 (2015), p. 245
About Margaret Deland's book John Ward, Preacher
Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)
Quelle: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 3 (2015), p. 386
“Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience — 4000 critics.”
Letter to Pamela Clemens Moffet, 9 November 1869, in Albert Bigelow Paine, Mark Twain's Letters: Arranged with Comment (1917), Vol. 1, p. 168 http://books.google.com/books?id=Ia8hAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA168
that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.
Letter to Helen Keller, after she had been accused of plagiarism for one of her early stories (17 March 1903), published in Mark Twain's Letters, Vol. 1 (1917) edited by Albert Bigelow Paine, p. 731
“I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.”
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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"; first published as "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" in the New York Saturday Press, 18 November 1865; revised by the author and reprinted the following month in The Californian; first anthologized in The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches http://books.google.com/books?id=kqMDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA17 (1867), ed. John Paul
“One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.”
New England Weather, speech to the New England Society (December 22, 1876)
Quelle: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 3 (2015), p. 99
Quelle: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 3 (2015), p. 14, of his daughter's, Clara's, incipient career as a concert vocalist
Quelle: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 (2013), p. 393