— Mark Twain, buch Following the Equator
Following the Equator, chapter XXXII.
Original engl.: "The man with a new idea is a Crank until the idea succeeds."
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— Mark Twain, buch Following the Equator
Following the Equator, Kap. XII
Original engl.: "Faith is believing what you know ain't so."
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Following the Equator, chapter LXVI.
Original engl.: "Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."
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— Mark Twain, buch Following the Equator
Following the Equator, chapter XXI
Original engl.: Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
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— Mark Twain, buch Following the Equator
Following the Equator, Kap. XLIII
Original engl.: "Hunger is the handmaid of genius."
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— Mark Twain, buch Following the Equator
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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— Mark Twain, buch 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."
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— Mark Twain, buch Following the Equator
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)
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— Mark Twain, buch 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."
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— Mark Twain, buch Following the Equator
Following the Equator, chapter XV.
Original engl.: "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."
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— Mark Twain, buch Following the Equator
Following the Equator, chapter XXV
Original engl.: »Classic.« A book which people praise and don't read."
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— Mark Twain, buch 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."
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— Mark Twain, buch Following the Equator
Following the Equator, chapter XXXVI.
Original engl.: "There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice."
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— Mark Twain, buch Following the Equator
Following the Equator, chapter XVIII
Original engl.: "It is easier to stay out than get out."
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— Mark Twain, buch Following the Equator
Following the Equator, chapter VII
Original engl.: "Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it."
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— Mark Twain, buch Following the Equator
Following the Equator, chapter X
Original engl.: "The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow."
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— Mark Twain, buch Following the Equator
Following the Equator, chapter XI.
Original engl.: "We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more."
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Variante: Wir sollten darauf achten, einer Erfahrung nur so viel Weisheit zu entnehmen, wie in ihr steckt - mehr nicht; damit wir nicht der Katze gleichen, die sich auf eine heiße Herdplatte setzte. Sie setzt sich nie wieder auf eine heiße Herdplatte - und das ist richtig; aber sie setzt sich auch nie wieder auf eine kalte.
— Mark Twain, buch Following the Equator
Following the Equator, chapter LXI
Original engl.: "In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards."
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Variante: Zuerst schuf Gott die Idioten. Das war zur Übung. Dann schuf er die Verlags-Lektoren.
— Mark Twain, buch 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."
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— Mark Twain, buch Following the Equator
Following the Equator, chapter LXIV.
Original engl.: "In Noah's Ark the beds were simply scandalous. Noah set the fashion, and it will endure in one degree of modification or another till the next flood."
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