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'Mark Twain, a Biography volume II Part 2 1886-1900, Ostindische Reise, 5. Februar 1896
Original engl.: "Preserve your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but not live."
Brief an Mary Hallock Foote, 2. Dezember 1887, veröffentlicht in "When Huck Finn Went Highbrow" <nowiki>ISBN 1-370-32642-5</nowiki>
Original engl.: "All you need in life is ignorance and confidence, then success is sure."
Briefe
Following the Equator, chapter LXIII und The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, chapter 7
Original engl.: "The principal difference between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives." (Following the Equator)
Original engl.: "One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives" (Pudd'nhead Wilson)
Following the Equator
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
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
„Der kälteste Winter meines Lebens war ein Sommer in San Francisco.“
Gemäß http://www.snopes.com/quotes/twain.asp nicht von Mark Twain. Er schreibt vielmehr in "Durch dick und dünn" (Roughing It): "Das Klima von San Francisco ist mild und einzigartig gleichbleibend. Das Thermometer steht das ganze Jahr bei etwa 70 Grad [21 °C]."
engl. zitiert als: "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."
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