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„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
„Mit Führer zu reisen ist ein Segen, ohne einen zu reisen ist das Gegenteil.“
A Tramp Abroad, Kap. XXXII
Original engl.: "To travel with a courier is bliss, to travel without one is the reverse."
Andere
Following the Equator, chapter LVI.
Original engl.: "There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can."
Following the Equator