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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

“There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said "Faith is believing what you know ain't so."”

Mark Twain livre Pudd'nhead Wilson

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

“April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four..”

Variante: April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales

“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”

Mark Twain livre Following the Equator

Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. XLVIII
Following the Equator (1897)
Variante: To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

“It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech.”

Variante: It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

“The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it”

Mark Twain livre Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer

Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”

Mark Twain livre Following the Equator

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

“Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.”

"Advice to Youth", speech to The Saturday Morning Club, Boston, 15 April 1882. Mark Twain Speaking (1976), ed. Paul Fatout, p. 169 http://books.google.com/books?id=mkFgXWvUkVoC&pg=PA169
Variante: Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

“In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.”

Mark Twain livre The Innocents Abroad

Source: The Innocents Abroad (1869), Ch. 61.
Contexte: The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They observed that we talked loudly at table sometimes. They noticed that we looked out for expenses and got what we conveniently could out of a franc, and wondered where in the mischief we came from. In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

“Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.”

Mark Twain livre Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.”

Variante: There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

“Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.”

"The Chronicle of Young Satan" (ca. 1897–1900, unfinished), published posthumously in Mark Twain's Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts (1969), ed. William Merriam Gibson ( pp. 165–166 http://books.google.com/books?id=LDvA2xcYZKcC&pg=PA165 in the 2005 paperback printing, ).
Source: The Mysterious Stranger and Other Curious Tales
Contexte: Your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug,—push it a little—crowd it a little—weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand.

“I take my only exercise acting as pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercised regularly.”

Source Undetermined in Everyone's Mark Twain (1972) compiled by Caroline Thomas Harnsberger, p. 161
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