Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
"There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages."
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"There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages."
Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
"I find that, as a rule, when a thing is a wonder to us it is not because of what we see in it, but because of what others have seen in it. We get almost all our wonders at second hand."
Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
"He had had much experience of physicians, and said 'the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not'."
Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
"The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large."
Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
"Be good and you will be lonesome."
Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."
Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards."
Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
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