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Following the Equator

by Mark Twain

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  1. 1Chapter LI — Chapter I — A Man May Have No Bad Habits and Have Worse
  2. 2Chapter II — When in Doubt, Tell the Truth
  3. 3Chapter III — It Is More Trouble to Make a Maxim Than It Is to Do R…
  4. 4Chapter IV — A Dozen Direct Censures Are Easier to Bear Than One Mo…
  5. 5Chapter V
  6. 6Chapter VI — He Was as Shy as a Newspaper Is When Referring to Its…
  7. 7Chapter VII — Truth Is the Most Valuable Thing We Have. Let Us Econ…
  8. 8Chapter VIII
  9. 9Chapter IX — It Is Your Human Environment That Makes Climate
  10. 10Chapter X
  11. 11Chapter XI
  12. 12Chapter XII
  13. 13Chapter XIII
  14. 14Chapter XIV
  15. 15Chapter XV — Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction — To Some People, but I…
  16. 16Chapter XVI
  17. 17Chapter XVII
  18. 18Chapter XVIII — It Is Easier to Stay Out Than Get Out
  19. 19Chapter XIX — Pity Is for the Living, Envy Is for the Dead
  20. 20Chapter XX
  21. 21Chapter XXI
  22. 22Chapter XXII — Nothing Is So Ignorant as a Man’s Left Hand, Except…
  23. 23Chapter XXIII — Be Careless in Your Dress If You Must, but Keep a T…
  24. 24Chapter XXIV
  25. 25Chapter XXV — “Classic.” A Book Which People Praise and Don’t Read
  26. 26Chapter XXVI
  27. 27Chapter XXVII — Man Is the Only Animal That Blushes. Or Needs to
  28. 28Chapter XXVIII
  29. 29Chapter XXIX
  30. 30Chapter XXX
  31. 31Chapter XXXI
  32. 32Chapter XXXII — The Man With a New Idea Is a Crank Until the Idea S…
  33. 33Chapter XXXIII
  34. 34XXXIV
  35. 35Chapter XXXV
  36. 36Chapter XXXVI — There Are Several Good Protections Against Temptati…
  37. 37Chapter XXXVII
  38. 38Chapter XXXVIII — Prosperity Is the Best Protector of Principle
  39. 39Chapter XXXIX
  40. 40Chapter XL
  41. 41Chapter XLI
  42. 42Chapter XLII — Each Person Is Born to One Possession Which Outvalue…
  43. 43Chapter XLIII — Hunger Is the Handmaid of Genius
  44. 44Chapter XLIV
  45. 45Chapter XLV
  46. 46Chapter XLVI
  47. 47Chapter XLVII
  48. 48Chapter XLVIII
  49. 49Chapter XLIX
  50. 50Chapter L
  51. 51Chapter LI
  52. 52Chapter LII — Wrinkles Should Merely Indicate Where Smiles Have Been
  53. 53Chapter LIII — True Irreverence Is Disrespect for Another Man’s God
  54. 54Chapter LIV
  55. 55Chapter LV
  56. 56Chapter LVI
  57. 57Chapter LVII
  58. 58Chapter LVIII
  59. 59Chapter LIX
  60. 60Chapter LX
  61. 61Chapter LXI
  62. 62Chapter LXII — There Are No People Who Are Quite So Vulgar as the O…
  63. 63Chapter LXIII
  64. 64Chapter LXIV
  65. 65Chapter LXV — In Statesmanship Get the Formalities Right, Never Min…
  66. 66Chapter LXVI — Every One Is a Moon, and Has a Dark Side Which He Ne…
  67. 67Chapter LXVII — First Catch Your Boer, Then Kick Him
  68. 68Chapter LXVIII
  69. 69Chapter LXIX — The Very Ink With Which All History Is Written Is Me…
  70. 70Conclusion

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