Mark Twain: Frases en inglés

Mark Twain era escritor estadounidense. Frases en inglés.
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“It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!”

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“Familiarity breeds contempt — and children.”

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Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)

“There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said "Faith is believing what you know ain't so."”

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Mark Twain libro Pudd'nhead Wilson

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

“April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four..”

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Variante: April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
Fuente: Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales

“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”

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Mark Twain libro Following the Equator

Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. XLVIII
Following the Equator (1897)
Variante: To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

“It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech.”

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Variante: It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

“Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.”

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“Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.”

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Mark Twain libro Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn

Fuente: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it”

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Mark Twain libro Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer

Fuente: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”

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Mark Twain libro Following the Equator

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

“Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.”

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