Jeg liker ikke arbeid, selv ikke når det er andre som utfører det.
Gjengitt i Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain, Delphi Classics (2013).
Lost Napoleon.
I do not like work even when someone else does it.
It took us ten days to float to Aries. There the current gave out and I closed the excursion and returned to Geneva by rail. It was twenty -eight miles to Marseilles, and we should have been obliged to row. That would not have been pleasure; it would have meant work for the sailor, and I do not like work even when another person does it.
Nasjonalitet: amerikansk
Tittel: forfatter og humorist
Levde: 1835 - 1910
Mark Twain er mest kjent for bøkene om Tom Sawyer og Huckleberry Finn. Ernest Hemingway har omtalt Mark Twain som han som startet den amerikanske litteraturen.