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 124
... once , I can lie twice for courtesy's sake , but I cannot lie three times . I not only heard the story , I wrote it . " INTRODUCTIONS Early in his career as a lecturer , Mark Twain grew so vexed with the bumbling introductions he ...
... once , I can lie twice for courtesy's sake , but I cannot lie three times . I not only heard the story , I wrote it . " INTRODUCTIONS Early in his career as a lecturer , Mark Twain grew so vexed with the bumbling introductions he ...
Pagina 158
... once more resumed playing " Auld Lang Syne . " " The very first time I struck up the variations , a haggard , careworn , cadaverous old man walked into my room and stood beaming upon me a smile of ineffable happiness . Then he placed ...
... once more resumed playing " Auld Lang Syne . " " The very first time I struck up the variations , a haggard , careworn , cadaverous old man walked into my room and stood beaming upon me a smile of ineffable happiness . Then he placed ...
Pagina 182
... Once I got a fish - line , but no hooks . It warn't any good to me without hooks . -Huckleberry Finn , 1884 , ch . 3 If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself , beware ! lest with- out intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at ...
... Once I got a fish - line , but no hooks . It warn't any good to me without hooks . -Huckleberry Finn , 1884 , ch . 3 If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself , beware ! lest with- out intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at ...
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