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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, 5 Monate, 19 Tage oder 68.837 Tage alt.

Geboren am 30.11.1835 in Florida/Missouri
Gestorben am 21.04.1910 in Redding/Connecticut
Sternzeichen: ♐ Schütze

• A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.

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• A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual..

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• A thoroughly beautiful woman and a thoroughly homely woman are creations which I love to gaze upon and which I cannot tire of gazing upon, for each is perfect in her own line.

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• Adam was but human - this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

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• Adam was but human-this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it only because it was forbidden.

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• Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him.

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• All kings is mostly rapscallions.

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• All say, How hard it is we have to die, - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

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• All the modern inconveniences.

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• All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

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• Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

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• As to the Adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• At bottom he was probably fond of them [Americans], but he was always able to conceal it.

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• Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

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• Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

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• Be good and you will be lonesome.

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• By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

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• Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?

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• Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

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