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

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Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897, ch. 10.

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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. 10.

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To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else—these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

Thomas Fuller (churchman)

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Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1869, ch. 26.

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Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress. Random House Publishing Group, 2003, ch. 26.

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They will never allow that a child is under any obligation to his father for begetting him, or his mother for bringing him into the world - which, considering the miseries of human life, was neither a benefit in itself nor intended so by his parents, whose thoughts in their love encounters were otherwise employed.

Jonathan Swift

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Swift, Jonathan. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships. London: Benjamin Motte, 1726, pt. 1, ch. 6.

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Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels, edited by Albert J. Rivero. W. W. Norton & Company, 2001, pt. 1, ch. 6.

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Whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together.

Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels

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Swift, Jonathan. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships. London: Benjamin Motte, 1726, pt. 2, ch. 7.

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Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels, edited by Albert J. Rivero. W. W. Norton & Company, 2001, pt. 2, ch. 7.

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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. Familiar Studies of Men and Books. London: Chatto & Windus, 1882.

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No permanent elevation of a people can be effected without commerce.

David Livingstone

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Livingstone, David. Travels and Researches in South Africa. London: John Murray, 1857, ch. 13.

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I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations.

Samuel Johnson

Quoted in The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, by James Boswell

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 18 Sept. 1773.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in "The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides." A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, edited by Jack Lynch and Celia Barnes. Oxford University Press, 2021.

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So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. Lay Morals. c. 1872.

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Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.

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Fuller, Thomas. The Holy State and the Profane State. Cambridge: John Williams, 1642, bk. 3, ch. 4.

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Whoever has really seen Russia will find himself content to live anywhere else. It is always good to know that a society exists where no happiness is possible because, by a law of nature, man cannot be happy unless he is free.

Astolphe de Custine

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La Russie en 1839

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Marquis de Custine. La Russie en 1839 [Russia in 1839]. Vol. 4, Bruxelles: Societe Belge de Librarie, 1843.

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Why this cult of wilderness?... Peace is often mentioned; beauty; spiritual refreshment, whatever that means; re-creation for the soul, whatever that is; escape; novelty, the delight of something different; truth and understanding and wisdom-commendable virtues in any man, anytime; ecology and all that, meaning the salvation of variety, diversity, possibility and potentiality, the preservation of the genetic reservoir, the answers to questions that we have not yet even learned to ask, a connection to the origin of things, an opening into the future, a source of sanity for the present-all true, all wonderful, all more than enough to answer such a dumb dead degrading question as "Why wilderness?" To which, nevertheless, I shall append one further answer anyway: because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.

Edward Abbey

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Abbey, Edward. "How It Was." Slickrock: The Canyon Country of Southeast Utah. Sierra Club Books, 1971.

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Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Laurens van der Post

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Post, Laurens van der. The Lost World of the Kalahari. William Morrow, 1958, ch. 3.

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As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of Omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden.

Henry Major Tomlinson

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Tomlinson, Henry Major. The Sea and the Jungle. Duckworth & Co., 1912, ch. 1.

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Tomlinson, Henry Major. The Sea and the Jungle. Dover Publications, 2015, ch. 1.

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.

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Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897, ch. 11.

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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. 11.

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Be good and you will be lonesome.

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

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A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

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Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897, ch. 14.

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There is no such thing as "the Queen's English." The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!

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Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897, ch. 24.

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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. 24.

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The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little by way of example.