L'avevo messo là dentro senza riflettere, poiché avevo immaginato che sarebbe stato particolarmente comodo averlo lì dentro.
E ora, il pensiero che era lì, così a portata di mano e tanto vicino eppure irraggiungibile peggiorava la situazione e la rendeva insopportabile. Già, la cosa che non si può avere è la cosa che più si desidera; tutti lo sanno.
In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
Mark TwainI once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.
Mark TwainTag: humor friendship attributed
It was such ecstacy to dream, and dream - till you got a bite.
A scorpion bite. Then the first duty was to get up out of the grass and kill the scorpion; and the next to bathe the bitten place with alcohol or brandy; and the next to resolve to keep out of the grass in the future. Then came an adjournment to the bedchamber and the pastime of writing up the day's journal with one hand and the destruction of mosquitoes with the other - a whole community of them at a slap. Then, observing an enemy approaching - a hairy tarantula on stilts - why not set the spittoon on him? It is done, and the projecting ends of his paws give a luminous idea of the magnitude of his reach. Then to bed and become a promenade for a centipede with forty-two legs on a side and every foot hot enough to burn a whole through a raw-hide. More soaking with alcohol, and a resolution to examine the bed before entering it, in future. Then wait, and suffer, till all the mosquitoes in the neighborhood have crawled in under the bar, then slip out quickly, shut them in and sleep peacefully on the floor till morning. Meantime, it is comforting to curse the tropics in occasional wakeful intervals.
Then there is the tamarind. I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. I ate several, and it seemed to me that they were rather sour that year. They pursed up my lips, till they resembled the stem-end of a tomato, and I had to take my sustenance through a quill for twenty-four hours. They sharpened my teeth till I could have shaved with them, and gave them a "wire edge" that I was afraid would stay; but a citizen said no, it will come off when the enamel does" - which was comforting, at any rate. I found, afterward, that only strangers eat tamarinds - but they only eat them once.
Mark TwainI once heard a grouty northern invalid say that a coconut tree might be poetical, possibly it was; but it looked like a feather-duster struck by lightning.
Mark TwainIt's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt
Mark TwainTag: humorous
Klonite se ljudi koji će pokušati omalovažiti vaše ambicije. Mali ljudi čine takve stvari, dok veliki ljudi mogu učuniti da se osetite da i vi možate postati veliki
Mark TwainDo the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain.
Mark TwainTag: fear
Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
Mark TwainTag: politics
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