The Writings of Mark Twain, Volume 14

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Harper & brothers, 1899

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Página 63 - One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
Página 157 - 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.
Página 19 - ADAM was but human — this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent ; then he would have eaten the serpent.
Página 182 - It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse-races.
Página 11 - ... prince's-feathers, and other old-fashioned flowers; while on the window-sills of the houses stood wooden boxes containing moss-rose plants and terra-cotta pots in which grew a breed of geranium whose spread of intensely red blossoms accented the prevailing pink tint of the rose-clad house-front like an explosion of flame. When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there — in...
Página 212 - Every human being carries with him from his cradle to his grave certain physical marks which do not change their character, and by which he can always be identified — and that without shade of doubt or question.
Página 68 - The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.—Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar. Consider well the proportions of things. It is better to be a young Junebug than an old bird of paradise.— Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar.
Página 230 - I had a sufficiently hard time with that tale, because it changed itself from a farce to a tragedy while I was going along with it — a most embarrassing circumstance. But what was a great deal worse was, that it was not one story, but two stories tangled together; and they obstructed and interrupted each other at every turn and created no end of confusion and annoyance.
Página 233 - I must simply give her the grand bounce. It grieved me to do it, for after associating with her so much I had come to kind of like her after a fashion, notwithstanding she was such an ass and said such stupid, irritating things and was so nauseatingly sentimental. Still it had to be done. So, at the top of Chapter...
Página 111 - PROTEUS [rising and singing] — he's a jolly good fel-low For he's a jolly good fel-low For he's— MAGNUS [peremptorily] Stop.

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