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Mark Twain [mɑɹk tweɪn], nom de plume de Samuel Langhorne Clemens, né le 30 novembre 1835 à Florida dans le Missouri et mort le 21 avril 1910 à Redding dans le Connecticut , est un écrivain, essayiste et humoriste américain.

Après avoir fait une carrière de militaire, été imprimeur et journaliste chez les mineurs du Nevada, il se fait connaître par son roman Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer et sa suite, Les Aventures de Huckleberry Finn . Wikipedia  

✵ 30. novembre 1835 – 21. avril 1910   •   Autres noms Samuel Langhorne Clemens
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Mark Twain Citations

“Il n'y a pas différents degrés de vanité, il y a seulement différents degrés de capacité à la dissimuler.”

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
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“Toute école, toute université, a deux grandes fonctions : accorder, et dissimuler, des connaissances précieuses.”

All schools, all colleges, have 2 great functions: to confer, & to conceal, valuable knowledge.
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“La vérité est la chose la plus précieuse que nous avons. Il nous faut l'économiser.”

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
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“Les hommes ont plus de compassion/noblesse/magnanimité/générosité que Dieu; car les hommes pardonnent les morts, mais Dieu ne le fait pas.”

Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive the dead, but God does not.
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“Le problème n'est pas que les sots soient trop nombreux, mais que les éclairs de foudre soient mal distribués.”

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
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“Ce qu'il manque à Dieu, ce sont des convictions, une certaine stabilité de caractère. Il devrait être presbytérien ou catholique ou quelque chose, mais pas essayer d'être tout à la fois.”

What God lacks is convictions -stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something, -not try to be everything.
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“Il n'y a eu qu'un chrétien. Ils l'ont attrapé et crucifié – tôt.”

There has only been one Christian. They caught him & crucified him -early.
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“Dans vingt ans, vous serez plus déçus par les choses que vous n'avez pas faites que par celles que vous avez faites. Alors sortez des sentiers battus. Mettez les voiles. Explorez. Rêvez. Découvrez.”

Variante: Dans vingt ans, vous serez plus déçu par les choses que vous n'avez pas faites que par celles que vous avez faites. Alors sortez des sentiers battus. Mettez les voiles. Explorez. Rêvez. Découvrez.

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Mark Twain: Citations en anglais

“All right, then, I'll go to hell.”

Mark Twain livre Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“Only the scum of the population do it”

Mark Twain livre Roughing It

As quoted in Roughing It http://www.friesian.com/quotes.htm (1872).
Roughing It (1872)
Contexte: No California gentleman or lady ever abuses or oppresses a Chinaman, under any circumstances, an explanation that seems to be much needed in the east. Only the scum of the population do it; they and their children. They, and, naturally and consistently, the policemen and politicians, likewise, for these are the dust-licking pimps and slaves of the scum, there as well as elsewhere in America.

“Murder is sometimes punished, free speech always”

"The Privilege of the Grave" (1905)
Contexte: As an active privilege, [free speech] ranks with the privilege of committing murder: we may exercise it if we are willing to take the consequences. Murder is forbidden both in form and in fact; free speech is granted in form but forbidden in fact. By the common estimate both are crimes, and are held in deep odium by all civilized peoples. Murder is sometimes punished, free speech always.

“Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.”

Mark Twain livre Following the Equator

Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. XXVII
Following the Equator (1897)

“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.”

Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. LXI
Following the Equator (1897)
Source: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”

Variante: It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.

“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”

Mark Twain livre Pudd'nhead Wilson

Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson

“What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.”

Autobiographical Dictation (1906).
Variante: The only reason why God created man is because he was disappointed with the monkey.

Mark Twain citation: “Be good and you will be lonesome.”

“Be good and you will be lonesome.”

Variante: Be good and you will be lonely.
Source: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

“Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”

Mark Twain livre Pudd'nhead Wilson

Variante: Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson

“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”

Mark Twain livre Life on the Mississippi

Source: Life on the Mississippi

“I thoroughly disapprove of duels. I consider them unwise and I know they are dangerous. Also, sinful. If a man should challenge me now I would go to that man and take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet retired spot and kill him.”

In revised edition, Vol. I, "Friday, January 19, 1906, About Dueling.", p. 298, The Autobiography of Mark Twain, 1959, Charles Neider, Harper & Row
Mark Twain's Autobiography (1924)

“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”

Variante: The report of my death was an exaggeration.

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