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
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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."
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A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, The Awful German Language
Original engl.: "Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than with a shovel."
A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, The Awful German Language
„Einige deutsche Wörter sind so lang, dass sie eine Perspektive haben.“
A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, The Awful German Language
Original engl.: "Some German words are so long that they have a perspective."
A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, The Awful German Language
Notebook, 1894
Original engl.: "If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat."
Notebook
„Prinzipien - ein anderes Wort für Vorurteile.“
Rede auf einem Bankett des Royal Literary Fund, London, 4. Mai 1900; Mark Twain's Speeches.
Original engl.: "Principles is another name for prejudices."
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„Je mehr Vergnügen du an deiner Arbeit hast, desto besser wird sie bezahlt.“
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Kap. XXVIII.
Original engl.: "The higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, also."
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