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Silence

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

~ Mark Twain

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Craig Constantine

Presence, not pursuit.

Craig Constantine

@SaraM37 i sehe was gemeint ist, aber Reiche haben Arme oft genug mit Gewalt ausgebeutet.

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A quotation from Mark Twain

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)

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Twain, Mark - Story (1905-02-02), "The Czar's Soliloquy," North American Review, Vol. 180, No. 580 (1905-03) | WIST Quotations

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…

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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 Twain

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Craig Constantine

Presence, not pursuit.

Craig Constantine

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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> Twain’s comment did not really match the quotation under investigation but it is related to the general theme:14
> > You’ll have to excuse my lengthiness—the reason I dread writing letters is because I am so apt to get to slinging wisdom & forget to let up. Thus much precious time is lost.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/
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Quote Origin: If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter – Quote Investigator®