Mark-Twain on Scholionhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/tags/mark-twain/Recent content in Mark-Twain on ScholionHugo -- gohugo.iopt-BR© 2026Wed, 27 May 2026 21:26:22 +0100My life has been filled with terrible misfortunes, most of which never happenedhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/life-filled-terrible-misfortunes-never-happened/Thu, 07 May 2026 12:05:41 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/life-filled-terrible-misfortunes-never-happened/Frase amplamente atribuída a Montaigne ou a Mark Twain. Sem fonte primária em qualquer dos dois. Atribuição a Montaigne começou em 1948 com Dale Carnegie.A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoeshttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/lie-travels-while-truth-puts-on-shoes/Wed, 06 May 2026 19:54:05 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/lie-travels-while-truth-puts-on-shoes/Família de expressões que evoluiu por três séculos. Ancestral em Jonathan Swift (1710); imagem das botas surge em 1820. Atribuição a Twain é de 1919, nove anos após sua morte.Buy land — they're not making it anymorehttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/buy-land-not-making-it-anymore/Wed, 06 May 2026 19:54:05 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/buy-land-not-making-it-anymore/Sem fonte primária em Twain ou Will Rogers. Registro mais antigo é do McCracken Enterprise (Kansas, 1905), anônimo. Atribuições a autores famosos vieram de propaganda imobiliária.I never let my schooling interfere with my educationhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/never-let-schooling-interfere-education/Wed, 06 May 2026 19:54:05 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/never-let-schooling-interfere-education/Frase de Grant Allen em Post-Prandial Philosophy (1894). Reatribuída a Mark Twain a partir de 1907 e a associação com Twain suplantou a memória de Allen.If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you do, you're misinformedhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/dont-read-newspaper-uninformed-misinformed/Wed, 06 May 2026 19:54:05 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/dont-read-newspaper-uninformed-misinformed/Não há registro da frase em texto de Mark Twain. Sentimento tem precedente em Jefferson (1807). Formulação atual surge cerca de 2007 e migra para redes sociais já com falsa atribuição.Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did dohttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twenty-years-from-now-disappointed-things-you-didnt-do/Wed, 06 May 2026 19:54:05 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twenty-years-from-now-disappointed-things-you-didnt-do/Frase de Sarah Frances Brown, mãe de H. Jackson Brown Jr. Aparece pela primeira vez em P.S. I Love You (1990) e foi viralizada nos anos 90 com atribuição falsa a Mark Twain.A classic — something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to readhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-classic-everybody-wants-to-have-read/Wed, 06 May 2026 19:26:56 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-classic-everybody-wants-to-have-read/De discurso de Mark Twain no Nineteenth Century Club em Nova York (20 nov 1900). Definição que ele repetiu em variações em outros contextos.All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is surehttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-ignorance-and-confidence/Wed, 06 May 2026 19:26:56 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-ignorance-and-confidence/De carta de Mark Twain a Cordelia Welsh Foote (2 dez 1887), jovem que pediu conselho profissional a ele.Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the resthttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-always-do-right/Wed, 06 May 2026 19:26:56 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-always-do-right/De curto discurso de Mark Twain à Young People’s Society em Brooklyn (16 fev 1901). Resposta característica do humor seco a pedidos de mensagem inspiradora.Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on societyhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-clothes-make-the-man-naked/Wed, 06 May 2026 19:26:56 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-clothes-make-the-man-naked/De More Maxims of Mark (1927), pequena coletânea póstuma de aforismos compilada por Albert Bigelow Paine.Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you pleasehttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-get-your-facts-first/Wed, 06 May 2026 19:26:56 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-get-your-facts-first/Frase que Twain teria dito a Rudyard Kipling em 1889 e que Kipling registrou em From Sea to Sea (1899) — única fonte da citação.Heaven for climate, Hell for societyhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-heaven-climate-hell-society/Wed, 06 May 2026 19:26:56 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-heaven-climate-hell-society/De discurso de Mark Twain na Acorn Society (1901). Brincadeira que ele repetia em variações: a escolha entre céu e inferno é menos sobre virtude do que sobre quem se encontra em cada lugar.Honesty is the best policy — when there is money in ithttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-honesty-best-policy-money/Wed, 06 May 2026 19:26:56 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-honesty-best-policy-money/De um discurso de Mark Twain na Eastman College em 1901. Inversão sarcástica do provérbio popular honesty is the best policy.If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anythinghttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-truth-dont-have-to-remember/Wed, 06 May 2026 19:26:56 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-truth-dont-have-to-remember/Anotação de caderno de Mark Twain (jan/fev 1894), feita durante a turnê de palestras que ele fez para pagar dívidas após a falência da editora que tinha.It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rarehttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-physical-courage-moral-courage/Wed, 06 May 2026 19:26:56 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-physical-courage-moral-courage/De Mark Twain in Eruption (1940), coletânea póstuma de capítulos da autobiografia que Twain ditou nos últimos anos de vida.Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soulhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-loyalty-to-petrified-opinions/Wed, 06 May 2026 19:26:56 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-loyalty-to-petrified-opinions/De Consistency, palestra que Mark Twain leu para o Hartford Monday Evening Club em 5 dez 1887. Ataca a coerência intelectual como virtude.Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long runhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-soap-and-education/Wed, 06 May 2026 19:26:56 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-soap-and-education/De The Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation, sátira em Mark Twain’s Sketches (1875) sobre uma brevíssima passagem fictícia de Twain no Senado dos EUA.The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter — 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightninghttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-lightning-bug-and-lightning/Wed, 06 May 2026 19:26:56 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-lightning-bug-and-lightning/De carta de Mark Twain a George Bainton (15 out 1888), em resposta a um pedido para escrever sobre o ofício literário. Virou referência clássica em manuais de redação.The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannothttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-man-knows-right-from-wrong/Wed, 06 May 2026 19:26:56 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-man-knows-right-from-wrong/De What Is Man? (1906), capítulo 6. Diálogo socrático em que Mark Twain ataca o livre-arbítrio e o excepcionalismo moral humano.Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the workhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-thunder-good-lightning-does-work/Wed, 06 May 2026 19:26:56 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-thunder-good-lightning-does-work/De carta de Mark Twain a um destinatário não identificado (1908). A imagem opõe ostentação retórica e precisão concentrada como dois modos da expressão.Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindednesshttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-travel-fatal-to-prejudice/Wed, 06 May 2026 19:26:56 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-travel-fatal-to-prejudice/Da conclusão de The Innocents Abroad (1869), narrativa de Twain sobre a viagem ao Mediterrâneo e Terra Santa em 1867 a bordo do Quaker City.Virtue never has been as respectable as moneyhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-virtue-respectable-as-money/Wed, 06 May 2026 19:26:56 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-virtue-respectable-as-money/De The Innocents Abroad (1869), capítulo 54. Observação sarcástica sobre a hierarquia social que Twain encontrou na viagem pelo Mediterrâneo e Europa.When in doubt, tell the truthhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-when-in-doubt-tell-the-truth/Wed, 06 May 2026 19:26:56 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-when-in-doubt-tell-the-truth/De Following the Equator (1897), entrada da coleção fictícia Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar que Twain usava como epígrafe dos capítulos.Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to dohttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-work-and-play-tom-sawyer/Wed, 06 May 2026 19:26:56 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/twain-work-and-play-tom-sawyer/De The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), capítulo 2, o famoso episódio em que Tom convence outros meninos a pagar para pintar a cerca da tia Polly.The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/the-worst-loneliness-mark-twain/Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:11:30 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/the-worst-loneliness-mark-twain/Atribuída a Mark Twain, sem registro em nenhuma obra ou discurso verificado. A frase circula amplamente em sites de citações sem fonte primária.