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Seife und Erziehung wirken nicht so schnell wie ein Massaker, aber auf die Dauer sind sie tödlicher.
Informationen über Mark Twain
Schriftsteller, "Die Abenteuer Tom Sawyers", "Abenteuer und Fahrten des Huckleberry Finn", "A Tramp Abroad", "Bummel durch Deutschland" (USA, 1835 - 1910).
Mark Twain · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Mark Twain wäre heute 188 Jahre, 9 Monate, 22 Tage oder 68.962 Tage alt.
Geboren am 30.11.1835 in Florida/Missouri
Gestorben am 21.04.1910 in Redding/Connecticut
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Weitere 515 Zitate von Mark Twain
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose missapplication of the word.
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Disappointed by apes, God created man. He then forewent further experiments.
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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Even Noah got no salary for the first six months - partly on account of the weather and partly because he was learning navigation.
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Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.
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Every man is born to one possession which outvalues all his others - his last breath.
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Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
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Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
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Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.
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Familiarity breeds contempt-and children.
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Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.
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Few sinners are saved after the first 20 minutes of a sermon.
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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
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Fleas can be taught nearly everything that a congressman can.
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Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
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Golf: A good walk spoiled.
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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.