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Die meisten Schriftsteller betrachten die Wahrheit als ihren größten Schatz und sind daher in ihrem Gebrauch überaus sparsam.
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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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: that is the ideal life.
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Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? and ain't that a big enough majority in any town?
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Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.
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Heaven for climate; hell for society.
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His money is twice tainted; 'taint yours and 'taint mine.
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I can live for two months on a good compliment.
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I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved it.
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I do not like work even when someone else does it.
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I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast - for lucheon - for dinner - for tea - for supper - for between meals.
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I felt good and all washed clean of sin.
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I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
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I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. I have no other restrictions as regards smoking.
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any: Exercise is loathsome.
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I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.
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I never write metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.
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I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering and that was the fact that it is past - can't be restored.
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I think that the reason why we Americans seem to be so addicted to trying to get rich suddenly is merely because the opportunity to make promising efforts in that direction has offered itself to us with a frequency out of all proportion to the European experience.
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I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
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I was sorry to hear my name mentioned as one of the great authors, become they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I am not feeling very well myself.