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 vii
... rest of our sages , poets , seers , critics , humorists ; they were like one another and like other literary men ; but Clemens was sole , incom- parable , the Lincoln of our literature . -William Dean Howells , My Mark Twain , 1910 He ...
... rest of our sages , poets , seers , critics , humorists ; they were like one another and like other literary men ; but Clemens was sole , incom- parable , the Lincoln of our literature . -William Dean Howells , My Mark Twain , 1910 He ...
Pagina 121
... rest I suppose we would set up a monument to him now . " Mark Twain reserved some of his most scathing remarks for other writers whom he believed to be overrated , such as James Fenimore Cooper , Henry James , George Eliot , and Jane ...
... rest I suppose we would set up a monument to him now . " Mark Twain reserved some of his most scathing remarks for other writers whom he believed to be overrated , such as James Fenimore Cooper , Henry James , George Eliot , and Jane ...
Pagina 131
... rest . " KNOWLEDGE The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands . - " How I Edited an Agricultural Paper , " story , 1870 Each of us knows it all , and knows he knows it all — the rest , to a ...
... rest . " KNOWLEDGE The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands . - " How I Edited an Agricultural Paper , " story , 1870 Each of us knows it all , and knows he knows it all — the rest , to a ...
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