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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, Kap. 16
Original engl.: "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
„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
„Man muss die Tatsachen kennen, bevor man sie verdrehen kann.“
Überliefert durch Rudyard Kipling, From Sea to Sea, Brief 37
Original engl.: "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them."
Andere
Brief an Mary Hallock Foote, 2. Dezember 1887, veröffentlicht in "When Huck Finn Went Highbrow" <nowiki>ISBN 1-370-32642-5</nowiki>
Original engl.: "All you need in life is ignorance and confidence, then success is sure."
Briefe
More Maxims of Mark, posthum veröffentlicht v. Merle Johnson, Privatdruck, New York 1927.
Original engl.: "Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish."
Andere
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, chapter 12
Original engl.: "October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February."
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, conclusion