The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become, until he goes abroad.
Mark TwainHuman nature appears to be just the same, all over the world
Mark TwainMots clés human-nature
In this same library we saw some drawings by Michael Angelo (these Italians call him Mickel Angelo,) and Leonardo da Vinci. (They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.)
Mark TwainWhy will people be so stupid as to suppose themselves the only foreigners among a crowd of ten thousand persons?
Mark TwainMots clés foreigners
It surprises me sometimes to think how much we do know and how intelligent we are.
Mark TwainBut we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie. We can tell them the moment we see them. They always throw out a few feelers; they never cast themselves adrift till they have sounded every individual and know that he has not traveled. Then they open their throttle valves, and how they do brag, and sneer, and swell, and soar, and blaspheme the sacred name of Truth! Their central idea, their grand aim, is to subjugate you, keep you down, make you feel insignificant and humble in the blaze of their cosmopolitan glory! They will not let you know anything. They sneer at your most inoffensive suggestions; they laugh unfeelingly at your treasured dreams of foreign lands; they brand the statements of your traveled aunts and uncles as the stupidest absurdities; they deride your most trusted authors and demolish the fair images they have set up for your willing worship with the pitiless ferocity of the fanatic iconoclast! But still I love the Old Travelers. I love them for their witless platitudes, for their supernatural ability to bore, for their delightful asinine vanity, for their luxuriant fertility of imagination, for their startling, their brilliant, their overwhelming mendacity!
Mark TwainTo the one, nights spent in dancing had seemed made of minutes instead of hours; to the other, those selfsame nights had been like all other nights of dungeon life and seemed made of slow, dragging weeks instead of hours and minutes.
Mark TwainMots clés time
It is hard to make railroading pleasant in any country. It is too tedious.
Mark TwainMots clés rail
Oh, go to bed!" Dan said that, and went away.
"Oh, yes, it's all very well to say go to bed when a man makes an argument which another man can't answer.
Mots clés arguments
Cărţile mele sunt ca apa. Cărţile marilor genii sunt ca vinul. Din fericire toată lumea bea apă.
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