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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
„Alle Welt schimpft auf das Wetter, aber niemand tut etwas dagegen.“
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/
Fälschlich zugeschrieben
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, chapter 2
Original engl.: "Adam was but human - this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden."
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
angeblich aus Old Times on the Mississippi, Atlantic Monthly 1875 http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/twainold/twain.html, erste Zuschreibung 1915 (p. 160 rechts unten) http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015010799206;view=1up;seq=180, fünf Jahre nach Mark Twains Tod, http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/10/10/twain-father/
engl.: "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
Fälschlich zugeschrieben
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."