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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

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 LVI.
Original engl.: "There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can."
Following the Equator

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

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

Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays 1852-1890
Original engl.: "If another citizen preferred to toy with death, and buy health in small parcels, to bribe death with a sugar pill to stay away, or go to the grave with all the original sweetners undrenched out of him, then the individual adopted the like »cures like« system, and called in a homeopath physician as being a pleasant friend of death's."
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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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The Innocents Abroad, chapter VII. Originaltext bei Projekt Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3176/3176-h/p1.htm#ch6
Original engl.: "I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up."
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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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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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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, chapter 12
Original engl.: "October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February."
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

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."

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."

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."
Following the Equator

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

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

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

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

More Maxims of Mark, posthum veröffentlicht v. Merle Johnson, Privatdruck, New York 1927.
Original engl.: "Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish."
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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
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Überliefert durch Charles D. Warner im Hartford Courant, 27. August 1897

A Tramp Abroad, Kap. XXXII
Original engl.: "To travel with a courier is bliss, to travel without one is the reverse."
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Christian Science, Buch 1, Kap. V
Original engl.: "Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles."
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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