Christian Science, Buch 1, Kap. V
Original engl.: "Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles."
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'Mark Twain, a Biography volume II Part 2 1886-1900, Ostindische Reise, 5. Februar 1896
Original engl.: "Preserve your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but not live."
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
Mark Twain, a Biography volume II Part 2 1886-1900, CCII
Original engl.: "I am quite sure that […] I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no colour prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. […] All that I care to know is that a man is a human being - that is enough for me; he can't be any worse."
A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, The Awful German Language
Original engl.: "[…] it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it."
A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, The Awful German Language
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."
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A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, Die schreckliche deutsche Sprache (The Awful German Language)
Original engl.: "I went often to look at the collection of curiosities in Heidelberg Castle, and one day I surprised the keeper of it with my German. I spoke entirely in that language. He was greatly interested; and after I had talked a while he said my German was very rare, possibly a »unique«; and wanted to add it to his museum."
A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, The Awful German Language
„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
Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays 1852-1890
Original engl.: "If another citizen preferred to toy with death, and buy health in small parcels, to bribe death with a sugar pill to stay away, or go to the grave with all the original sweetners undrenched out of him, then the individual adopted the like »cures like« system, and called in a homeopath physician as being a pleasant friend of death's."
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