A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
Weitere Zitate von Mark Twain
Zum Autor"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it."
"Ah, heavens and earth, friend, if you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor that you could to-day."
"Work is a necessary evil to be avoided."
"In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language."
"Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may."
"The preacher who casts a vote for conscience' sake, runs the risk of starving."