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“Names are not always what they seem.”

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Zdroj: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

“Stay away from people who belittle your ambition, small people do that, but great people make you like to be great!”

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Varianta: Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

“There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.”

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“To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?”

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“a fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.”

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Mark Twain kniha The Prince and the Pauper

Zdroj: The Prince and the Pauper

“If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loudly. Do not compound mispronunciation with inaudibility”

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“If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.”

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“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.”

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Often attributed to Twain, but of unknown origin. http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/scrapbook/04_trouble/ http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=009Ckt http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/08/19/MNGOBEA9JI1.DTL This entry from Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/30/coldest-winter/ discusses some possible early sources. <br class="br">Twain did write, in Roughing It http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3177/3177.txt: <br class="br">The climate of San Francisco is mild and singularly equable. The thermometer stands at about seventy degrees the year round. It hardly changes at all. You sleep under one or two light blankets Summer and Winter, and never use a mosquito bar. Nobody ever wears Summer clothing. You wear black broadcloth--if you have it--in August and January, just the same. It is no colder, and no warmer, in the one month than the other. You do not use overcoats and you do not use fans. It is as pleasant a climate as could well be contrived, take it all around, and is doubtless the most unvarying in the whole world. The wind blows there a good deal in the summer months, but then you can go over to Oakland, if you choose--three or four miles away--it does not blow there. <br class="br">Misattributed

“The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.”

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Mark Twain kniha Roughing It

Zdroj: Roughing It

“I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.”

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“You tell me whar a man gits his corn pone, en I'll tell you what his 'pinions is.”

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Europe and Elsewhere. Corn Pone Opinions (1925)

“Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.”

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Mark Twain kniha Following the Equator

Zdroj: Following the Equator (1897), Ch. XLI

“It should, it seems to me, be our pleasure and duty to make those people [the Filipinos] free, and let them deal with their own domestic questions in their own way. And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.”

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New York Herald, October 15, 1900, quoted in A Pen Warmed Up In Hell:Mark Twain in Protest, edited by Frederick Anderson, Harper & Row, 1979

“In the cotton States, after the war…the Jew came down in force, set up shop on the plantation, supplied all the negro's wants on credit, and at the end of the season was proprietor of the negro's share of the present crop and of part of his share of the next one. Before long, the whites detested the Jew, and it is doubtful if the negro loved him.”

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Mark Twain kniha Concerning the Jews

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

“All creatures kill—there seems to be no exception; but of the whole list, man is the only one that kills for fun; he is the only one that kills in malice, the only one that kills for revenge.”

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Zdroj: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 (2010), p. 312

“We began to stir against slavery. Hearts grew soft, here, there, and yonder. There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in all the land but one—the pulpit. It yielded at last; it always does. It fought a strong and stubborn fight, and then did what it always does, joined the procession—at the tail end. Slavery fell. The slavery text remained; the practice changed, that was all.”

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Bible Teaching and Religious Practice http://books.google.com/books?id=sujuHO_fvJgC&amp;pg=PA568&amp;dq=twain+%22Bible+Teaching+and+Religious+Practice%22&amp;cd=1#v=onepage&amp;q=twain%20%22Bible%20Teaching%20and%20Religious%20Practice%22&amp;f=false. <br class="br">&quot;Bible Teaching and Religious Practice&quot; (1923)

“Adam's temperament was the first command the Deity ever issued to a human being on this planet. And it was the only command Adam would never be able to disobey. It said, "Be weak, be water, be characterless, be cheaply persuadable." The later command, to let the fruit alone, was certain to be disobeyed. Not by Adam himself, but by his temperament”

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which he did not create and had no authority over.
"The Turning Point of my Life", §3, Harper's Bazar, February 1910, as reprinted in Essays and Sketches of Mark Twain (1995), ed. Stuart Miller, ISBN 1566198798

“She had run down and down and down, and had at last reached a point where medicines no longer had any helpful effect upon her. I said I knew I could put her upon her feet in a week. It brightened her up, it filled her with hope, and she said she would do everything I told her to do. So I said she must stop swearing and drinking, and smoking and eating for four days, and then she would be all right again. And it would have happened just so, I know it; but she said she could not stop swearing, and smoking, and drinking, because she had never done those things. So there it was. She had neglected her habits, and hadn’t any. Now that they would have come good, there were none in stock. She had nothing to fall back on. She was a sinking vessel, with no freight in her to throw overboard and lighten ship withal.”

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Mark Twain kniha Following the Equator

Zdroj: Following the Equator (1897), Ch. I