Mark Twain, a Biography Part 2 1866-1875
Original engl.: "How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before."
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Following the Equator, chapter LIX
Original engl.: "Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live."
Following the Equator
„Verschiebe nicht auf morgen, was genauso gut auf übermorgen verschoben werden kann.“
The Late Benjamin Franklin; Benjamin Franklin in den Mund gelegt
Original engl.: "Never put off till to-morrow what you can do day after to-morrow just as well."
Andere
„Der Bericht über meinen Tod war eine Übertreibung.“
New York Journal, 2. Juni 1897
Original engl.: "The report of my death was an exaggeration."; meist zitiert als: "The report of my death has been greatly exaggerated."
Mark Twain, a Biography
Concerning the Jews; in: The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and other Stories; Kommentar zu einem Artikel, der die Vertreibung der Juden forderte, da 85 Prozent der Anwälte und Geschäftsleute Juden seien
Original engl.: "It was but another way of saying that in a population of 48,000,000, of whom only 500,000 were registered as Jews, eighty-five per cent of the brains and honesty of the whole was lodged in the Jews."
Andere
„Was wäre die Menschheit ohne die Frauen? Rar, sehr rar.“
Woman - an Opinion; Rede vor dem Washington Correspondents' Club, in: Mark Twain's Speeches
Original engl.: "What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce."
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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, chapter 2
Original engl.: "Adam was but human - this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden."
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson