„Glück strahlt zurück wie das Licht des Himmels.“
Old Christmas
Original engl.: "Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven."
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„Eine scharfe Zunge ist das einzige Schneidwerkzeug das bei andauerndem Gebrauch schärfer wird.“
Rip van Winkle
Original engl.: "A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use."
Life of Mohammed, Kap. VIII
Original engl.: "He was sober and abstemious in his diet, and a rigorous observer of fasts. He indulged in no magnificence of apparel, the ostentation of a petty mind, neither was his simplicity in dress affected, but the result of a real disregard to distinction from so trivial a source."
„Hört man je, dass dicke Männer einen Aufstand geführt hätten?“
Knickerbocker's Geschichte von New York Original engl.: "Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs?"
Life of Mohammed, VIII
Original engl.: "In his private dealings he was just. He treated friends and strangers, the rich and the poor, the powerful and the weak, with equity, and was beloved by the common people for the affability, with which he received them, and listened to their complaints."
Life of Mohammed, IX
Original engl.: "His military triumphs awakened no pride nor vainglory, as they would have done had they been effected for selfish purposes. In the time of his greatest power, he maintained the same simplicity of manners and appearances as in the days of his adversity. So far from affecting a regal state, he was displeased if, on entering a room, any unusual testimonial of respect was shown to him."
A Tale for Our Times: The Great Mississippi Bubble
Original engl.: "Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment."
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Mahomet and his successors, George P. Putnam, 1850, p. 330-331.
Mahomet and his successors (1849)
“They who drink beer will think beer.”
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
"Stratford-on-Avon".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)
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"The Westminster Abbey [The Poets' Corner]".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)
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"Westminster Abbey".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)
“Free-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.”
The Stout Gentleman http://web.archive.org/20020106095151/www.geocities.com/cyber_explorer99/.
Book IV, ch. 241.
Knickerbocker's History of New York http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13042 (1809)
Mahomet and his successors, George P. Putnam, 1850, p. 330.
Mahomet and his successors (1849)
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
"Rip Van Winkle".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)
“I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.”
Tales of a Traveler http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13514, To the Reader http://books.google.com/books?id=6R0GAAAAQAAJ&q=%22I+am+always+at+a+loss+to+know+how+much+to+believe+of+my+own+stories%22&pg=PR13#v=onepage (1824).
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"Westminster Abbey".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)
The Creole Village published in The Knickerbocker magazine (November 1836). This is origin of the expression almighty dollar. See Edward Bulwer-Lytton for "the pursuit of the almighty dollar". Compare: "Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, And almost every vice,—almighty gold", Ben Jonson, Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland.
Book IV, ch. 4.
Knickerbocker's History of New York http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13042 (1809)
Letter to William Irving, Jr., about his positive attitude acquired while traveling in Europe.
Quelle: Washington Irving to William Irving Jr., September 20, 1804, Works 23:90.
Book II, ch. 3.
Knickerbocker's History of New York http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13042 (1809)
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"Rural Funerals".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)
