Mark Twain: Cytaty po angielsku
Mark Twain był amerykański pisarz, satyryk, humorysta. Cytaty po angielsku.
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“Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
Mark Twain
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Following the Equator
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. LXVI
Following the Equator (1897)
“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.”
Mark Twain
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Przygody Hucka
Notebook entry, January or February 1894, Mark Twain's Notebook, ed. Albert Bigelow Paine (1935), p. 240 http://books.google.com/books?id=DjBVlb7cBSIC&pg=PA240
Wariant: If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
Źródło: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
Variant of this quote "The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up." is misattributed to Albert Einstein.
Źródło: According Quote Investigator Mark Twain did write a version of this saying in a personal notebook in 1896, and it was published by 1935 in “Mark Twain’s Notebook”. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/12/21/cheer-somebody/
No known source in Twain's works.
The earliest known source is a Usenet post from November 2000 https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=israel.francophones/j_b0peHVcJw/YN5cG6Pdk6QJ.
Disputed
Wariant: Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
Wariant: If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
“Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.”
Alternate (also Twain's): Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Źródło: Mark Twain's Notebook (1935), p. 393
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
Wariant: Never let your schooling interfere with your education.