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“Le romancier qui écrit une histoire d’adulte sait exactement où et comment s’arrêter, c’est le plus souvent par un mariage. Quand il s’agit d’un enfant, il s’arrête où il peut.”

Mark Twain livre Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“Un pauvre garçon qui n’avait rien d’autre à proposer alla jusqu’à dire, avec une fierté manifeste à ce souvenir : « Eh bien, moi, une fois, Tom Sawyer m’a battu ! »”

Mark Twain livre Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“La charité nous force à tirer le rideau sur le reste de cette scène.”

Mark Twain livre Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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“Beaucoup de petites choses furent agrandies par le bon type de publicité.”

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“Les informations les plus intéressantes proviennent des enfants, car ils disent tout ce qu'ils savent et puis s'arrêtent.”

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“Faites toujours ce qui est bien. Cela satisfera la moitié de l'humanité et étonnera l'autre.”

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“Mais qui prie pour Satan? Qui, en dix-huit siècles, a eu un peu d'humanité pour prier pour le seul pécheur qui en avait le plus besoin?”

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Mark Twain: Citations en anglais

“A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.”

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“There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.”

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“In God We Trust.”

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It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings. It is simple, direct, gracefully phrased: it always sounds well — In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true. And in a measure it is true — half the nation trusts in Him. That half has decided it.
Source: Mark Twain's Notebook (1935), p. 394

“The only reason why God created man is because he was disappointed with the monkey.”

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Autobiographical Dictation (1906)

“Don't believe the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

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Misattributed <br class="br">Source: Often attributed to Twain, but sourced to Robert J. Burdette, Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/06/06/world-owes/

“The glory which is built upon a lie soon becomes a most unpleasant incumbrance. ... How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!”

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Source: Autobiographical dictation, 2 December 1906. Published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2 (University of California Press, 2013)

“If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers. He has made a marvellous fight in the world, in all the ages; and has done it with his hands tied behind him. He could be vain of himself, and be excused for it. The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed, and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished. The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind. All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?”

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Mark Twain livre Concerning the Jews

Concerning the Jews (Harper's Magazine, Sept. 1899)