The Wit & Wisdom of Mark TwainHarper & Row, 1987 - 265 pagina's This sparkling anthology of Mark Twain's most trenchant remarks has been culled from his books, speeches, letters and conversations recorded by contemporaries. The sayings are as fresh today as when he first wrote them and represent Twain at his wittiest and best. |
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Pagina 137
... lecture and a speech— for when you deliver a lecture you get good pay , but when you make a speech you don't get a cent . -Republican rally speech , 1880 Lecturing is gymnastics , chest - expander , medicine , mind - healer , blues ...
... lecture and a speech— for when you deliver a lecture you get good pay , but when you make a speech you don't get a cent . -Republican rally speech , 1880 Lecturing is gymnastics , chest - expander , medicine , mind - healer , blues ...
Pagina 138
... lecture . Finding no reception committee , he walked straight to the lecture hall , where the crowd was gathering . As he tried to press through , he was stopped cold by the ticket - taker . Said Twain : " It's all right , I am the lecturer ...
... lecture . Finding no reception committee , he walked straight to the lecture hall , where the crowd was gathering . As he tried to press through , he was stopped cold by the ticket - taker . Said Twain : " It's all right , I am the lecturer ...
Pagina 168
... lecture tour of England in 1873 was very successful , but one thing was lacking to make the triumph complete : the presence in the audience of some great member of the nobility . Near the end of his tour , Twain told a London audience ...
... lecture tour of England in 1873 was very successful , but one thing was lacking to make the triumph complete : the presence in the audience of some great member of the nobility . Near the end of his tour , Twain told a London audience ...
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American answered asked audience Autobiography become believe Biography called City civilization Clemens Connecticut Yankee critics dead death DeVoto difference don't Earth England essay experience fact feel Following the Equator give hand Harper heard heart Heaven Huckleberry Finn human humor idea Innocents Abroad interest invented Italy keep kind lecture Letter literary live look man's Mark Twain matter mean mind Mississippi morals natural Neider never Notebook once opinion Paine perfect person published Pudd'nhead Wilson race reason religion replied reporter rest river Roughing Satan Sawyer sometimes speak speech stand story Stranger talk tell thing thought told Tramp trouble true truth weather whole woman write wrong wrote York young
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