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The Innocents Abroad
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"The Innocents Abroad" Quotes

A humorous travelogue detailing Mark Twain's experiences and observations as he travels through Europe and the Holy Land.

Quotes

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

Mark Twain

travelprejudiceopen-mindedness

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

Mark Twain

travelhappinessmisery

I am not the man to go to for information when a person wants to get on the easy side of a thing like that.

Mark Twain

informationdifficulties

All our lives are so unimportant, so death is unimportant, too, unless a man dies of an accident, or rapture, or something like that.

Mark Twain

lifedeathmeaning

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.

Mark Twain

travelself-awareness

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

Mark Twain

travelprejudiceopen-mindedness

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

Mark Twain

travelrelationships

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

Mark Twain

sanityhappiness

We recognized the names of many of our towns and villages, but they were too small to be seen from the deck.

Mark Twain

travelobservation

Travel is the only cure for the fatal disease of routine.

Mark Twain

travelroutine