FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR, by Mark Twain [feqtr10.txt] 2895

Against nature to take an interest in familiar things

Age after age, the barren and meaningless process

All life seems to be sacred except human life

But there are liars everywhere this year

Capacity must be shown (in other work); in the law, concealment of it will do

Christmas brings harassment and dread to many excellent people

Climate which nothing can stand except rocks

Creature which was everything in general and nothing in particular

Custom supersedes all other forms of law

Death in life; death without its privileges

Every one is a moon, and has a dark side

Exercise, for such as like that kind of work

Explain the inexplicable

Faith is believing what you know ain't so

Forbids betting on a sure thing

Forgotten fact is news when it comes again

Get your formalities right--never mind about the moralities

Give thanks that Christmas comes but once a year

Good protections against temptations; but the surest is cowardice

Goody-goody puerilities and dreary moralities

Habit of assimilating incredibilities

Human pride is not worth while

Hunger is the handmaid of genius

If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank

Inherited prejudices in favor of hoary ignorances

It is easier to stay out than get out

Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to

Meddling philanthropists

Melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy

Moral sense, and there is an Immoral Sense

Most satisfactory pet--never coming when he is called

Natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs

Neglected her habits, and hadn't any

Never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt

No nation occupies a foot of land that was not stolen

No people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined ones

Notion that he is less savage than the other savages

Only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want

Ostentatious of his modesty

Otherwise they would have thought I was afraid, which I was

Pity is for the living, Envy is for the dead

Prosperity is the best protector of principle

Received with a large silence that suggested doubt

Seventy is old enough--after that, there is too much risk

Silent lie and a spoken one

Sinking vessel, with no freight in her to throw over

Takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you

Thankfulness is not so general

The man with a new idea is a Crank until the idea succeeds

This is a poor old ship, and ought to be insured and sunk

To a delicate stomach even imaginary smoke can convey damage

Tourists showing how things ought to be managed

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been

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