In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when… - Mark Twain

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In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

Mark Twain

The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress · February 11, 2003 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known as Mark Twain, was an American humorist, novelist, writer, and lecturer.

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Pen Names: Sieur Louis de Conte • Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass • Quintus Curtius Snodgrass • J. W. Bothwell

Birth Name: Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Alternative Names: Samuel L. Clemens • Samuel Clemens • Louis de Conte

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يولد الناس .. و يؤلم بعضهم بعضاً .. ثم يموتون

Morals are an acquirement—like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis—no man is born with them.

Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.

In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their … - Mark Twain

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