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Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

"We sai1ed for America, and there made certain preparations. This took but little time. Two members of my family elected to go with me. Also a carbuncle. The dictionary says a carbuncle is a kind of jewel. Humor is out of place in a dictionary." —

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“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

Tagged: Metaphor, dark side, Moon

“But language is a treacherous thing, a most unsure vehicle, and it can seldom arrange descriptive words in such a way that they will not inflate the facts-by help of the readers imagination, which is always ready to take a hand, and work for nothing, and do the bulk of it at that.”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

Tagged: Language, treachery, vehicle, Communication, Facts

“The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

Tagged: Killing, Murder, Joy, creepy, Human Nature

“Be good and you will be lonesome.”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

Tagged: Lonely, Goodness, morals, Ethics, humanity

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: White Men, racism, humor, Funny, The World

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

Tagged: fiction, Truth, strange, stranger than fiction, Possibility