„Jeder ist ein Mond und hat eine dunkle Seite, die er niemandem zeigt.“
Following the Equator, chapter LXVI.
Original engl.: "Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."
Following the Equator
'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."
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."
Andere
Mark Twain, a Biography volume II Part 2 1886-1900 CLXXXVII
Original engl.: "Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash--that one is the cat.."
A Tramp Abroad; Appendix D The Awful German Language
Original engl.: "A person who has not studied German can form no idea of what a perplexing language it is. Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp."
A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, The Awful German Language
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
Following the Equator, chapter LXIII und The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, chapter 7
Original engl.: "The principal difference between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives." (Following the Equator)
Original engl.: "One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives" (Pudd'nhead Wilson)
Following the Equator
