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Rede auf einem Bankett des Royal Literary Fund, London, 4. Mai 1900; Mark Twain's Speeches.
Original engl.: "Principles is another name for prejudices."
Andere
„Je mehr Vergnügen du an deiner Arbeit hast, desto besser wird sie bezahlt.“
Mark Twain buch Ein Yankee am Hofe des König Artus
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."
Andere
Mark Twain buch Following the Equator
Following the Equator, chapter XLIX
Original engl.: "The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what; you don't like, and do what you'd druther not."
Following the Equator
Mark Twain buch Die Arglosen im Ausland
The Innocents Abroad, chapter VII. Originaltext bei Projekt Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3176/3176-h/p1.htm#ch6 <br class="br">Original engl.: "I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up." <br class="br">Andere
Ansprache an Medizinstudenten während seines Aufenthalts in Berlin zum Ende des Jahres 1891 <br class="br">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 <br class="br">Notebook
„Der Mensch wurde am Ende der Wochenarbeit erschaffen, als Gott bereits müde war.“
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
„Der Mensch ist das einzige Lebewesen, das erröten kann. Oder sollte.“
Mark Twain buch Following the Equator
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
Mark Twain buch Knallkopf Wilson
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
Mark Twain buch Following the Equator
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