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Ansprache an Medizinstudenten während seines Aufenthalts in Berlin zum Ende des Jahres 1891
Original engl.: "I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language." -Chapter XXI „European Residence“. Mark Twain's Notebook (1935), p.219 archive.org https://archive.org/stream/completeworksofm22twai#page/218/mode/2up/search/berlin
Notebook

Notebook, 19. März 1903; in Mark Twain, a Biography Part 3 1900-1907
Original engl.: "Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired."
Notebook

Following the Equator, chapter XXVII
Original engl.: "Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to."
Following the Equator

Mark Twain, a Biography Part 2 1866-1875
Original engl.: "Some folks mistake vivacity for wit; whereas the difference between vivacity and wit is the same as the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning."

The Lowest Animal
Original engl.: "Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight."
The Lowest Animal

Querkopf Wilson. Deutsch von Margarete Jacobi (1923) Kapitel 5, letzter Satz (Proben aus Querkopf Wilsons Kalender). http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/querkopf-wilson-6001/6
Original engl.: "It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it."
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

Following the Equator, chapter XVI.
Original engl.: "There is a Moral sense, and there is an Immoral Sense. History shows us that the Moral Sense enables us to perceive morality and how to avoid it, and that the Immoral Sense enables us to perceive immorality and how to enjoy it."
Following the Equator

What is Man? / Old Man
Original engl.: "Duties are not performed for duty's SAKE, but because their NEGLECT would make the man UNCOMFORTABLE."
Andere

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, chapter 15
Original engl.: "Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits."
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

Following the Equator, chapter XXI
Original engl.: Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
Following the Equator