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Following the Equator

by Mark Twain

Contents

• I. A man may have no bad habits
• II. When in doubt, tell the truth
• III. It is more trouble to make a maxim
• IV. A dozen direct censures are easier
• V. Noise proves nothing
• VI. He was as shy as a newspaper
• VII. Truth is the most valuable thing
• VIII. It could probably be shown by facts and figures
• IX. It is your human environment that makes climate
• X. Everything human is pathetic
• XI. We should be careful to get out of an experience
• XII. There are those who scoff at the schoolboy
• XIII. The timid man yearns for full value
• XIV. We can secure other people's approval
• XV. Truth is stranger than fiction- to some people
• XVI. There is a Moral sense
• XVII. The English are mentioned in the Bible
• XVIII. It is easier to stay out than get out
• XIX. Pity is for the living
• XX. It is by the goodness of God
• XXI. Man will do many things to get himself loved
• XXII. Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand
• XXIII. Be careless in your dress if you must
• XXIV. There is no such thing as the Queen's English
• XXV. Classic. A book which people praise
• XXVI. There are people who can do all fine and heroic
• XXVIL. Man is the Only Animal that Blushes.
• XXVIII. Let us be thankful for the fools
• XXIX. When people do not respect us
• XXX. Nature makes the locust with an appetite
• XXXI. The spirit of wrath
• XXXII. The man with a new idea
• XXXIII. Let us be grateful to Adam
• XXXIV. Let us not be too particular
• XXXV. The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power
• XXXVI. There are several good protections
• XXXVII. To succeed in the other trades
• XXXVIII. Prosperity is the best protector of principle
• XXXIX. By trying we can easily learn to endure
• XL. Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's
• XLI. There is an old- time toast
• XLII. Each person is born to one possession
• XLIII. Hunger is the handmaid
• XLIV. The old saw says, Let a sleeping dog lie
• XLV. It takes your enemy and your friend
• XLVI. If the desire to kill and the opportunity
• XLVII. Simple rules for saving money
• XLVIII. Grief can take care of itself
• XLIX. He had had much experience of physicians
• L. The man who is ostentatious of his modesty
• LI. Let me make the superstitions of a nation
• LII. Wrinkles should merely indicate
• LIII. True irreverence
• LIV. Do not undervalue the headache
• LV. There are 869 different forms of lying
• LVI. There are two times in a man's life
• LVII. She was not quite what you would call refined
• LVII. The British were caught asleep
• LIX. Don't part with your illusions
• LX. SATAN (impatiently) to NEW- COMER
• LXI. In the first place God made idiots
• LXII. There are no people who are quite so vulgar
• LXIII. The principal difference between a cat and a lie
• LXIV. When your watch gets out of order you have choice
• LXV. In statesmanship get the formalities right
• LXVI. Every one is a moon, and has a dark side
• LXVII. First catch your Boer
• LXVIII. None of us can have as many virtues
• LXIX. The very ink with which all history is written

FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR

by Mark Twain

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