Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

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Chapter I
A man may have no bad habits and have worse. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. The starting point of this lecturing-trip around the world…
Chapter II (1)
When in doubt, tell the truth. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. About four days out from Victoria we plunged into hot weather, and all th…
Chapter II (2)
“Splendid!” they all cried. “Oh, that will do—that will answer perfectly.” And they all said that Mrs. Enderby had the best head for planni…
Chapter III (1)
It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. On the seventh day out we saw a dim vast bulk…
Chapter III (2)
There: rugs, ices, pictures, lanais, worldly books, sinful bric-a-brac fetched from everywhere. And the ladies riding astride. These are ch…
Chapter IV
A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. Sailed from Honolulu.—From di…
Chapter V
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. WED…
Chapter VI
He was as shy as a newspaper is when referring to its own merits. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. Captain Wawn is crystal-clear on one p…
Chapter VII
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. From Diary:—For a day or two we have been…
Chapter VIII
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. —Pudd’nhead Wil…
Chapter IX
It is your human environment that makes climate. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. Sept. 15—Night. Close to Australia now. Sydney 50 miles…
Chapter X
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Ne…
Chapter XI
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…
Chapter XII
There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said “Faith is believing what y…
Chapter XIII
The timid man yearns for full value and asks a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Ne…
Chapter XIV
We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of…
Chapter XV
Truth is stranger than fiction—to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. Truth is stranger t…
Chapter XVI
There is a Moral sense, and there is an Immoral Sense. History shows us that the Moral Sense enables us to perceive morality and how to avo…
Chapter XVII
The English are mentioned in the Bible: Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. When we…
Chapter XVIII
It is easier to stay out than get out. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. The train was now exploring a beautiful hill country, and went tw…
Chapter XIX
Pity is for the living, Envy is for the dead. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. The successor of the sheet-iron hamlet of the mangrove mar…
Chapter XX
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience,…
Chapter XXI
Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. Before I saw…
Chapter XXII
Nothing is so ignorant as a man’s left hand, except a lady’s watch. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. You notice that Mrs. Praed knows her…
Chapter XXIII
Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. We left Adelaide in due course, and went to…
Chapter XXIV
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 s…
Chapter XXV
“Classic.” A book which people praise and don’t read. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. On the rail again—bound for Bendigo. From diary: O…
Chapter XXVI
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one! keep from telling their happinesses to the unhappy. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Ne…
Chapter XXVII
Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious…
Chapter XXVIII
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. The aphorism does reall…
Chapter Xxvix
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’…
Chapter XXX
Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. W…
Chapter XXXI
The spirit of wrath—not the words—is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’…
Chapter XXXII
The man with a new idea is a Crank until the idea succeeds. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. It was Junior England all the way to Christc…
Chapter XXXIII
Let us be grateful to Adam our benefactor. He cut us out of the “blessing of idleness,” and won for us the “curse of labor.” —Pudd’nhead Wi…
Following the Equator — XXXIV
Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. November 2…
Chapter XXXV
The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar…
Chapter XXXVI
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. Names are not alway…
Chapter XXXVII
To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. MONDAY,—D…
Chapter XXXVIII
Prosperity is the best protector of principle. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. EVENING—14th. Sailed in the Rosetta. This is a poor old s…
Chapter XXXIX
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. You soon find your long-ago dr…
Chapter XL
Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man’s, I mean. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. The next picture in my mind is Government House,…
Chapter XLI
There is an old-time toast which is golden for its beauty. “When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend.” —Pudd’nhead…
Chapter XLII
Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others—his last breath. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. Toward midnight, t…
Chapter XLIII
Hunger is the handmaid of genius —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. One day during our stay in Bombay there was a criminal trial of a most…
Chapter XLIV
The old saw says, “Let a sleeping dog lie.” Right.... Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it. —Pudd’nh…
Chapter XLV
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to yo…
Chapter XLVI
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. On the…
Chapter XLVII
Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait, and count forty. To s…
Chapter XLVIII
Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calend…
Chapter XLIX (1)
He had had much experience of physicians, and said “the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t li…
Chapter XLIX (2)
Then we struck into the hot plain, and found the roads crowded with pilgrims of both sexes, for one of the great religious fairs of India w…
Chapter L
The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. The journey to B…
Chapter LI
Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. Yes, th…
Chapter LII
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. In one of those Benares temples we saw a devotee…
Chapter LIII
True irreverence is disrespect for another man’s god. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. It was in Benares that I saw another living god. T…
Chapter LIV
Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is w…
Chapter LV
There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy nei…
Chapter LVI
There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calend…
Chapter LVII
She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a par…
Chapter LVIII (1)
Make it a point to do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty wit…
Chapter LVIII (2)
Ten days before the outbreak (May 10th) of the Mutiny, all was serene at Lucknow, the huge capital of Oudh, the kingdom which had recently…
Chapter LIX (1)
Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. Ofte…
Chapter LIX (2)
The weather clears, toward dawn, and leaves a brisk pure atmosphere and a sky without a shred of cloud in it—and everything is still, there…
Chapter LX
SATAN (impatiently) to NEW-COMER. The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are…
Chapter LXI
In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. Suppose we applie…
Chapter LXII
There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined ones. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. We sailed from Calcutta toward the…
Chapter LXIII
The principal difference between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. April 20.—The cycl…
Chapter LXIV
When your watch gets out of order you have choice of two things to do: throw it in the fire or take it to the watch-tinker. The former is t…
Chapter LXV
In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. FROM DIARY: Royal Hotel. Co…
Chapter LXVI
Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. When I scribbled in my note-bo…
Chapter LXVII (1)
First catch your Boer, then kick him. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. Those latter days were days of bitter worry and trouble for the ha…
Chapter LXVII (2)
To retain the British method requires certain things, determinable by arithmetic. If, for argument’s sake, we allow that the aggregate of 1…
Chapter LXVIII
None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. The Duk…
Chapter LXIX
The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. —Pudd’nhead Wilsons’s New Calendar There isn’t a Parallel of Lati…
Conclusion
I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calen…