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Quotes from The Innocents Abroad — Mark Twain

1835–1910 United States

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8 quotes

Virtue never has been as respectable as money.

The Innocents Abroad (1869)

They spell it "Vinci" and pronounce it "Vinchy". Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

The Innocents Abroad (1869)

Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke.

The Innocents Abroad (1869)

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

The Innocents Abroad (1869)

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

The Innocents Abroad (1869)

I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little--not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a diving-bell.

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Enough, enough, enough! Say no more! Lump the whole thing! say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo!

The Innocents Abroad (1869)

I used to worship the mighty genius of Michael Angelo — that man who was great in poetry, painting, sculpture, architecture — great in every thing he undertook. But I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast — for luncheon — for dinner — for tea — for supper — for between meals. I like a change, occasionally.

The Innocents Abroad (1869)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mark Twain (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.