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“...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.”

Quote by Mark Twain

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

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Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

This book presents a curated selection of Mark Twain's most memorable and insightful quotes, showcasing his sharp wit and profound observations on various aspects of life and society. more

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Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was a renowned American author and humorist in the 19th century. His works are characterized by humor, satire, and profound social insight, with notable novels such as 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'. more

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“It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.”

Men Eye Language Heaven Rich Terrible Easier Scripts Kingdoms Awful Foreigners Needles Rich Man Kingdom Of Heaven Through The Eyes Cannibal

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“A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.”

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“In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.”

Language Awful Inventing Sufferers Toothache German Language

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“Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.”

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Book:Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883)

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“I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.”

Believe Whole Earth Language Don't Believe Berlin German Language

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“...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of an insurrection, anyway.”

Kind Language Circumstances Conversation Atmosphere Insurrection

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“It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them flapping around in your head same as so much drawn butter.”

Knows Want Feels Firsts Running Together Language Brain Intellect Awful Dose Undermining German Language Flapping

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“When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.”

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“I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up.”

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“By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently interested; don't know how I got in and can't find the way out, but I'm having a booming time all to myself.Don't know what a Schelgesetzentwurf is, but I keep as excited over it and as worried about it as if it were my own child. I simply live on the Sch.; it is my daily bread. I wouldn't have the question settled for anything in the world.”

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Author:Mark Twain