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To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the onlooking world consent to it is a finer.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Part 3 “The Tale of the Lost Land,” ch. 8 “The Boss”More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/39269/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #connecticutyankee #buyin #agreement #authority #consent #consentofthegoverned #democracy #popularopinion #popularity #power #support
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To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the onlooking world consent to it is a finer.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Part 3 “The Tale of the Lost Land,” ch. 8 “The Boss”More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/39269/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #connecticutyankee #buyin #agreement #authority #consent #consentofthegoverned #democracy #popularopinion #popularity #power #support
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Puddin' Head Whatzizface's Almanac
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Puddin' Head Whatzizface's Almanac
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“Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
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Comedian #WhitneyCummings stung #DonaldTrump with a #JeffreyEpstein joke that she had been warned not to use during this year’s celebration of the #MarkTwain Prize for #American Humor at the #KennedyCenter.
She said “I actually heard #Trump may come tonight but he couldn’t make it. He got caught in sex traffic.” ✅ https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-epstein-joke-whitney-cummings-kennedy-center_n_6a42f211e4b0d6c25f530aac
#Resist hilariously. #DoNotComply and #DoNotCollaborateWithFascists in #USpol.
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Comedian #WhitneyCummings stung #DonaldTrump with a #JeffreyEpstein joke that she had been warned not to use during this year’s celebration of the #MarkTwain Prize for #American Humor at the #KennedyCenter.
She said “I actually heard #Trump may come tonight but he couldn’t make it. He got caught in sex traffic.” ✅ https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-epstein-joke-whitney-cummings-kennedy-center_n_6a42f211e4b0d6c25f530aac
#Resist hilariously. #DoNotComply and #DoNotCollaborateWithFascists in #USpol.
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SIGUE ⬇️
Tenía 74 años.
Con el tiempo fue reconocido como uno de los grandes escritores de todos los tiempos.
William Faulkner llegó a definirlo como "el padre de la literatura estadounidense moderna".Su vida fue una mezcla de éxito, tragedia, humor y ruina.
Hizo reír a millones de personas mientras enterraba a casi toda su familia, perdió una fortuna que volvió a ganar trabajando sin descanso y dejó personajes que, más de un siglo después, siguen siendo parte de la infancia de medio mundo.▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣
𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝑇𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑀𝑒
▪️𝐴𝑛̃𝑜: 𝟷𝟿𝟿𝟷
▪️𝐷𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟: 𝐷𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑒𝑙 𝑃𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒
▪️𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎 (𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝑇𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑛): 𝐽𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑅𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠
𝐸𝑠𝑡𝑎́ 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑎𝑑𝑎 𝑒𝑛 𝑙𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑠 𝑑𝑒 𝐷𝑜𝑟𝑜𝑡𝘩𝑦 𝑄𝑢𝑖𝑐𝑘, 𝑢𝑛𝑎 𝑛𝑖𝑛̃𝑎 𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑜́ 𝑎 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝑇𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑒𝑛 𝑙𝑜𝑠 𝑢́𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑜𝑠 𝑎𝑛̃𝑜𝑠 𝑑𝑒 𝑠𝑢 𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑎.
𝑁𝑜 𝑐𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎 𝑠𝑢 𝑏𝑖𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑖́𝑎, 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑜 𝑠𝑢 𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑝𝑎 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙, 𝑐𝑢𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑜 𝑦𝑎 𝑒𝑟𝑎 𝑢𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑜 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑜.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WocGSH57Sdo
#marktwain #samuelclemens #literatura #historia #escritores #tomsawyer #huckleberryfinn #curiosidades #biografia #historiareal
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I followed their eyes, as sure as guns, there was my eclipse beginning! The life went boiling through my veins; I was a new man! The rim of black spread slowly into the sun’s disk, my heart beat higher and higher, and still the assemblage and the priest stared into the sky, motionless. I knew that this gaze would be turned upon me, next. When it was, I was ready. I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Part 3 “The Tale of the Lost Land,” ch. 6 “The Eclipse”More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/84647/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #aconnecticutyankee #pose #relief #renewal #triumph #eclipse
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I followed their eyes, as sure as guns, there was my eclipse beginning! The life went boiling through my veins; I was a new man! The rim of black spread slowly into the sun’s disk, my heart beat higher and higher, and still the assemblage and the priest stared into the sky, motionless. I knew that this gaze would be turned upon me, next. When it was, I was ready. I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Part 3 “The Tale of the Lost Land,” ch. 6 “The Eclipse”More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/84647/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #aconnecticutyankee #pose #relief #renewal #triumph #eclipse
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“Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... That possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.”
― Mark Twain#Bot #Quote #Dog #Dogs #Heaven #HumanBeings #Humans #Man #MarkTwain #Quote
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“Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... That possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.”
― Mark Twain#Bot #Quote #Dog #Dogs #Heaven #HumanBeings #Humans #Man #MarkTwain #Quote
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Die Tagebücher von Adam und Eva (2023)
verfügbar bis 23.07.2026https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/077263-000-A/die-tagebuecher-von-adam-und-eva/
https://www.imdb.com/de/title/tt9249092
#DieTagebücherVonAdamUndEva #Film #AdamUndEva #GartenEden #Berlin #FranzMüller #MarkTwain #AncaAndrone #IngeBlau #FlorianMischaBöder #Deutsch #arte #artetv #artemediathek #mediathek
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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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The question as to whether there is such a thing as divine right of kings is not settled in this book. It was found too difficult. That the executive head of a nation should be a person of lofty character and extraordinary ability, was manifest and indisputable; that none but the Deity could select that head unerringly, was also manifest and indisputable; that the Deity ought to make that selection, then, was likewise manifest and indisputable; consequently, that He does make it, as claimed, was an unavoidable deduction. I mean, until the author of this book encountered the Pompadour, and Lady Castlemaine, and some other executive heads of that kind; these were found so difficult to work into the scheme, that it was judged better to take the other tack in this book (which must be issued this fall), and then go into training and settle the question in another book. It is, of course, a thing which ought to be settled, and I am not going to have anything particular to do next winter anyway.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, PrefaceMore about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/84562/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #aconnecticutyankee #connecticutyankee #anointing #aristocracy #blessing #divinefavor #divineright #government #kings #nobility #rule #rulership #superiority #monarchy #autocracy
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The question as to whether there is such a thing as divine right of kings is not settled in this book. It was found too difficult. That the executive head of a nation should be a person of lofty character and extraordinary ability, was manifest and indisputable; that none but the Deity could select that head unerringly, was also manifest and indisputable; that the Deity ought to make that selection, then, was likewise manifest and indisputable; consequently, that He does make it, as claimed, was an unavoidable deduction. I mean, until the author of this book encountered the Pompadour, and Lady Castlemaine, and some other executive heads of that kind; these were found so difficult to work into the scheme, that it was judged better to take the other tack in this book (which must be issued this fall), and then go into training and settle the question in another book. It is, of course, a thing which ought to be settled, and I am not going to have anything particular to do next winter anyway.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, PrefaceMore about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/84562/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #aconnecticutyankee #connecticutyankee #anointing #aristocracy #blessing #divinefavor #divineright #government #kings #nobility #rule #rulership #superiority #monarchy #autocracy
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‘Upgraded’ Panthers pass rush named key to playoff chances https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/917775/ #Carolina #CarolinaPanthers #CarolinaPanthers #DamnLiesAndStatistics #DerrickBrown #Football #lies #MarkTwain #MattOkada #NFL #Panthers #PassAttempt #PlayoffBerth #UnemploymentNumbers
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Custom is custom; it is built of brass, boiler iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Essay (1906), “The Gorky Incident,” Letters from the Earth (c. 1909; pub. 1962) [ed. DeVoto (1939)]More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/84429/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #twain #thegorkyincident #argument #custom #irrationality #law #morality #penalty #publicmorals #publicopinion #punishment #scandal #socialconventions #taboo #tradition
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Custom is custom; it is built of brass, boiler iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Essay (1906), “The Gorky Incident,” Letters from the Earth (c. 1909; pub. 1962) [ed. DeVoto (1939)]More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/84429/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #twain #thegorkyincident #argument #custom #irrationality #law #morality #penalty #publicmorals #publicopinion #punishment #scandal #socialconventions #taboo #tradition
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The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
-- Mark Twain (Following the Equator)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MarkTwain #History #Prejudice
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida
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The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
-- Mark Twain (Following the Equator)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MarkTwain #History #Prejudice
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
-- Mark Twain⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MarkTwain #Confidence #Ignorance
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
-- Mark Twain⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MarkTwain #Confidence #Ignorance
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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Wenn wir bedenken, dass wir alle #verrückt sind, ist das #Leben #erklärt.
(Mark #Twain)
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Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one may reason all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Essay (1906), “The Gorky Incident,” Letters from the Earth (c. 1909; pub. 1962) [ed. DeVoto (1939)]More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/84115/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #gorky #thegorkyincident #custom #law #morality #obedience #penalty #publicmorals #publicopinion #punishment #rationality #reason #rightandwrong #scandal #socialconventions #taboo #tradition #transgression
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Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one may reason all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Essay (1906), “The Gorky Incident,” Letters from the Earth (c. 1909; pub. 1962) [ed. DeVoto (1939)]More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/84115/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #gorky #thegorkyincident #custom #law #morality #obedience #penalty #publicmorals #publicopinion #punishment #rationality #reason #rightandwrong #scandal #socialconventions #taboo #tradition #transgression
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How the Mississippi River helped build America and inspire Mark Twain
The Mississippi River transformed America's size, commerce and culture. It also inspired Mark Twain's most famous stories. Read more: Sign up for our newsletter for the day's top stories, from sports to movies to politics to world events: #Mississippi #River #MarkTwain
https://fllics.com/en/video/how-the-mississippi-river-helped-build-america-and-inspire-mark-twain/
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How the Mississippi River helped build America and inspire Mark Twain
The Mississippi River transformed America's size, commerce and culture. It also inspired Mark Twain's most famous stories. Read more: Sign up for our newsletter for the day's top stories, from sports to movies to politics to world events: #Mississippi #River #MarkTwain
https://fllics.com/en/video/how-the-mississippi-river-helped-build-america-and-inspire-mark-twain/
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A nineteen year old young woman on a mission to remove #British occupation from #France was burned alive for wearing men's clothes
She is the only seventeen year old girl to command a national army
Rest in power Joan.
#MarkTwain wrote n historical novel of her life, he considered it his masterpiece titled #JoanOfArc
It is awesome
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A nineteen year old young woman on a mission to remove #British occupation from #France was burned alive for wearing men's clothes
She is the only seventeen year old girl to command a national army
Rest in power Joan.
#MarkTwain wrote n historical novel of her life, he considered it his masterpiece titled #JoanOfArc
It is awesome
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@SaraM37 i sehe was gemeint ist, aber Reiche haben Arme oft genug mit Gewalt ausgebeutet.
#zitate #sprueche #literatur #armundreich #ausbeutung #marktwain
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@SaraM37 i sehe was gemeint ist, aber Reiche haben Arme oft genug mit Gewalt ausgebeutet.
#zitate #sprueche #literatur #armundreich #ausbeutung #marktwain
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Ah! what could our Family do without the moralist? He has always been our stay, our support, our friend; today he is our only friend. Whenever there has been dark talk of assassination, he has come forward and saved us with his impressive maxim, “Forbear: nothing politically valuable was ever yet achieved by violence.” He probably believes it. It is because he has by him no child’s book of world-history to teach him that his maxim lacks the backing of statistics. All thrones have been established by violence; no regal tyranny has ever been overthrown except by violence; by violence my fathers set up our throne; by murder, treachery, perjury, torture, banishment and prison they have held it for four centuries, and by these same arts I hold it today. There is no Romanoff of learning and experience but would reverse the maxim and say: “Nothing politically valuable was ever yet achieved except by violence.”
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Story (1905-02-02), “The Czar’s Soliloquy,” North American Review, Vol. 180, No. 580 (1905-03)More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/83906/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #assassination #despotism #history #moralist #morals #oppression #politicalhistory #politicalviolence #ruleoflaw #tyranny #violence
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Ah! what could our Family do without the moralist? He has always been our stay, our support, our friend; today he is our only friend. Whenever there has been dark talk of assassination, he has come forward and saved us with his impressive maxim, “Forbear: nothing politically valuable was ever yet achieved by violence.” He probably believes it. It is because he has by him no child’s book of world-history to teach him that his maxim lacks the backing of statistics. All thrones have been established by violence; no regal tyranny has ever been overthrown except by violence; by violence my fathers set up our throne; by murder, treachery, perjury, torture, banishment and prison they have held it for four centuries, and by these same arts I hold it today. There is no Romanoff of learning and experience but would reverse the maxim and say: “Nothing politically valuable was ever yet achieved except by violence.”
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Story (1905-02-02), “The Czar’s Soliloquy,” North American Review, Vol. 180, No. 580 (1905-03)More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/83906/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #assassination #despotism #history #moralist #morals #oppression #politicalhistory #politicalviolence #ruleoflaw #tyranny #violence
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Elias Canetti – Tagebuch 1975 – Über Mark Twain
Mark Twain, seine späte Verbitterung, nach allem, was er früher geglaubt hat, ist notwendig und richtig, Wie anders als Shaw, der bis zum Schluß an seinen Späßen Genüge fand! In der Hoffnungslosigkeit seiner späten Jahre ist Mark Twain ein Vorläufer unserer Zeit. Was er für sich aufschrieb und geheim hielt, ist das Wichtige, man müßte es alles kennen. Die Unreinheit seiner Formen. Seine Ergebung in die amerikanische Sitte gehört zu ihm als Ausdruck seines Debakels, dessen er sich bewußt ist. (…)
Sein Auftreten als Spaßmacher, wie es von Zeugen geschildert wird, ist entsetzlich. Sein frühes Leben als Lotse auf dem ungeheuren Strom – welch Dichter hat die Menschheit auf solche Art erfahren? Ein Nachfahre des Cervantes in seinen beiden Hauptfiguren Tom Sawyer und Huck Finn. Ein Übertreiber und Erfinder, einer, der das ist, was Dichter einmal waren, bevor sie zu Leisetretern wurden. (23/24)
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Just read ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ on Qucee. Seriously. G.G.’s note at the start… that was wild. Like, a smack in the face. Someone gave me this recommendation, my auntie Nomusa, no less! She usually reads gardening magazines. This whole thing feels… deliberately unsettling. It’s not about ‘morals’ or a proper plot. Just… floatin’ down a river with a kid and a slave. stays with you about all the things we don't say. Heavy. #classiclit #marktwain #reading
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A great many troubles
I am an old man, and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
~ Mark Twainslip:4a1049.
#7ForSunday #MarkTwain #Quotes #Snark
