Mark Twain: Aktuelle Zitate (seite 7)

Mark Twain, a Biography Part 2 1866-1875
Original engl.: "How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before."

Following the Equator, Kap. XLIII
Original engl.: "Hunger is the handmaid of genius."
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Christian Science, Buch II, Kap. VII, The Church Edifice
Original engl.: "Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat."
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A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, Die schreckliche deutsche Sprache (The Awful German Language)
Original engl.: "I went often to look at the collection of curiosities in Heidelberg Castle, and one day I surprised the keeper of it with my German. I spoke entirely in that language. He was greatly interested; and after I had talked a while he said my German was very rare, possibly a »unique«; and wanted to add it to his museum."
A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, The Awful German Language

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, chapter 10 Original engl.: "When angry count four; when very angry, swear."
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, chapter 8
Original engl.: "It is better to be a young June bug than an old bird of paradise."
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

Mark Twain, a Biography; prefatory note
Original engl.: "When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not, but I am getting old, and soon I shall remember only the latter."

Unterwegs: Aus Querkopf Wilsons Neuem Kalender, EulenSpiegelVerlag, S. 116
"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.” Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar
Following the Equator

Following the Equator, Kap. IV, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar
Original engl.: "A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment."
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Following the Equator, Kap. XX
Original engl.: "It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them."
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Following the Equator, chapter X
Original engl.: "The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow."
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Following the Equator, chapter VII
Original engl.: "Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it."
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Following the Equator, chapter XXV
Original engl.: »Classic.« A book which people praise and don't read."
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Following the Equator, chapter LXIX
Original engl.: "There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights."
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Following the Equator, chapter XXXVI.
Original engl.: "There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice."
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Following the Equator, chapter XVIII
Original engl.: "It is easier to stay out than get out."
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Following the Equator, chapter LIX
Original engl.: "Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live."
Following the Equator