2008-01-05 03:43:04Honigmann
圍捕馬克吐溫…
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豐收成三…
“I saw a startling sight today,” Mark Twain said,
“a politician with his hand in his own pockets.”
- quoted in New Ideas from Dead Economists, Todd G. Buchholz
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"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is like the difference between lightning（閃電）and a lightning bug（螢火蟲）."
Source: Letter to George Bainton (1888) /see http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Twain
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“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.”
- quoted in Autobiography with Letters, William L. Phelps
（圖片取自http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/images2/twain_cigars.gif）
刻意再去網路上圍捕兩則回來
豐收成三…
“I saw a startling sight today,” Mark Twain said,
“a politician with his hand in his own pockets.”
- quoted in New Ideas from Dead Economists, Todd G. Buchholz
***
"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is like the difference between lightning（閃電）and a lightning bug（螢火蟲）."
Source: Letter to George Bainton (1888) /see http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Twain
***
“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.”
- quoted in Autobiography with Letters, William L. Phelps
（圖片取自http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/images2/twain_cigars.gif）