Mark Twain: Citáty anglicky

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“Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”

Mark Twain kniha Following the Equator

Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. LXVI
Following the Equator (1897)

“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.”

Mark Twain kniha Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Notebook entry, January or February 1894, Mark Twain's Notebook, ed. Albert Bigelow Paine (1935), p. 240 http://books.google.com/books?id=DjBVlb7cBSIC&pg=PA240
Varianta: If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
Zdroj: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”

Variant of this quote "The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up." is misattributed to Albert Einstein.
Zdroj: According Quote Investigator Mark Twain did write a version of this saying in a personal notebook in 1896, and it was published by 1935 in “Mark Twain’s Notebook”. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/12/21/cheer-somebody/

“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”

Varianta: Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

“Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.”

Alternate (also Twain's): Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Zdroj: Mark Twain's Notebook (1935), p. 393

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”

Varianta: Never let your schooling interfere with your education.

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”

Varianta: If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

Mark Twain citát: “If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”

“If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”

No known source in Twain's works.
The earliest known source is a Usenet post from November 2000 https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=israel.francophones/j_b0peHVcJw/YN5cG6Pdk6QJ.
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