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The Innocents Abroad

With an Introduction by Stuart Hutchinson. Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party? So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe and the Holy Land in June 1867. His adventures produced The

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“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.”

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“Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke.”

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“Enough, enough, enough! Say no more! Lump the whole thing! say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo!”

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“The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They observed that we talked loudly at table sometimes. They noticed that we looked out for expenses and got what we conveniently could out of a franc, and w…”

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“Virtue never has been as respectable as money.”

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“I used to worship the mighty genius of Michael Angelo — that man who was great in poetry, painting, sculpture, architecture — great in every thing he undertook. But I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast — for luncheon — for dinner — for tea — for supper — for between meals. I like a change, occ…”

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“I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little--not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a diving-bell.”

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“They spell it "Vinci" and pronounce it "Vinchy". Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.”

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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”

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Tagged: Human Nature, Natural, humanity, cross-culturally, sameness

“Human nature appears to be just the same, all over the world.”

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Tagged: Human Nature, Natural, humanity, cross-culturally, sameness

“She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.”

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Tagged: compliments, Love, Relationships, deserving, live up to your potential

“One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.”

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Tagged: Wisdom, wholesome, Views, Men, humanity

“Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

Tagged: Wisdom, wholesome, Views, Men, humanity