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Concerning the Jews; in: The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and other Stories; Kommentar zu einem Artikel, der die Vertreibung der Juden forderte, da 85 Prozent der Anwälte und Geschäftsleute Juden seien
Original engl.: "It was but another way of saying that in a population of 48,000,000, of whom only 500,000 were registered as Jews, eighty-five per cent of the brains and honesty of the whole was lodged in the Jews."
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„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
„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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The Last Words Of Great Men, in: The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches, 1869
Original engl.: "A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a slip of paper and take the judgment of his friends on them. He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spirit at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur."
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Brief an George Bainton vom 15. Oktober 1888; veröffentlicht in "The Art of Authorship" von George Bainton
Original engl.: "The difference between the almost right word and the right word is the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning."
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