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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... truth . I am not a reporter . It was a deception just to meet you . " Mark Twain grinned . “ A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar . I am glad to meet you , sir . Wait a moment . When I say that , I am a ...
... truth . I am not a reporter . It was a deception just to meet you . " Mark Twain grinned . “ A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar . I am glad to meet you , sir . Wait a moment . When I say that , I am a ...
Pagina 233
... truth . -Following the Equator , 1897 , vol . 1 ch . 2 If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything . -Notebook , 1894 Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction ? Fiction , after all , has to stick to possibilities ...
... truth . -Following the Equator , 1897 , vol . 1 ch . 2 If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything . -Notebook , 1894 Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction ? Fiction , after all , has to stick to possibilities ...
Pagina 234
... truth , the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind to believe it . -Neider , Autobiography , 1959 , ch . 26 Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it . -Notebook , 1902 An injurious truth has no merit over ...
... truth , the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind to believe it . -Neider , Autobiography , 1959 , ch . 26 Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it . -Notebook , 1902 An injurious truth has no merit over ...
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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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