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Zeitschrift für das gesamte Kreditwesen, 1969 Heft 1 S. 2 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=Y00oAAAAMAAJ&q=wetter. Meist angesehen als ein von Charles Dudley Warner überlieferter Ausspruch Mark Twains im Hinblick auf
"A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it."
in einem anonym publizierten Leitartikel im Hartford Courant von 27. August 1897, dessen Redakteur Warner damals war. Am 18. November 1884 hatte es jedoch in einer Veröffentlichung der Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York http://books.google.de/books?id=SQWGAAAAIAAJ&q=dudley+warner geheißen:
"your action reminded me of the observation of my old friend and partner, DUDLEY WARNER, concerning New-England weather – it is a matter about which a great deal is said, but very little done."
In einem Artikel über Warner in der Zeitschrift " The Book Buyer http://books.google.de/books?id=ktwRAAAAYAAJ&q=+%22little+done%22" las man im März 1889:
"The weather in New England," said Mr. Warner "is a matter about which a great deal is said and very little done."
Die erste gedruckte Zuschreibung an Mark Twain erfolgte, soweit ersichtlich 1905 in Sketches of Some Early Shefford Pioneers von John Powell Noyes, p. 13 archive.org https://archive.org/stream/sketchesofsomee00noye#page/12/mode/2up/search/twain:
There were letters printed in favor of the idea in the far away city papers, but as Mark Twain said of complaints about the weather, – "Nothing was done." - nach http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/04/23/everybody-talks-about-the-weather/
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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."
Andere

'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."
Briefe

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

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