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Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897, ch. 32.

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Twain, Mark. "Following the Equator." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 32.

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True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.

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Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897, ch. 53.

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Twain, Mark. "Following the Equator." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 53.

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Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.

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Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897, ch. 27.

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Twain, Mark. "Following the Equator." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 27.

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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

Pudd'nhead Wilson

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Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." The Century Magazine, Nov. 1893-Oct. 1894.

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Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." Pudd'nHead Wilson and Other Tales, edited by R.D. Gooder. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

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Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897, ch. 38.

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Twain, Mark. "Following the Equator." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 38.

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear.

Pudd'nhead Wilson

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Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." The Century Magazine, Nov. 1893-Oct. 1894.

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Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." Pudd'nHead Wilson and Other Tales, edited by R.D. Gooder. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897, ch. 66.

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Twain, Mark. "Following the Equator." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 66.

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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Oscar Wilde

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Philadelphia, July 1890, ch. 6.

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Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Robert Mighall. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 8.

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I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says:
"Yes, the little ones does."

Tom Sawyer Abroad

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Twain, Mark. Tom Sawyer Abroad. New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1894.

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Twain, Mark. "Tom Sawyer Abroad." Mark Twain: The Gilded Age & Later Novels, edited by Hamlin Hill. Library of America, 2002.

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When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

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Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897, ch. 29.

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Twain, Mark. "Following the Equator." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 29.

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Genius lasts longer than Beauty.

Oscar Wilde

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Philadelphia, July 1890, ch. 1.

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Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Robert Mighall. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 1.

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The timid man yearns for full value and asks a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

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Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897, ch. 13.

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Twain, Mark. "Following the Equator." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 13.

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Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

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Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897, ch. 51.

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Twain, Mark. "Following the Equator." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 51.

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It is quite a three-pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Red-Headed League

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Red-Headed League." The Strand Magazine. London: August 1891.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Red-Headed League." The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2010.

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

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Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897, ch. 15.

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Twain, Mark. "Following the Equator." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 15.

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Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 21. Originally from Notebook, 1894.

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The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

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