Mark Twain: Aktuelle Zitate

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."
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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

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."

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

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."
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