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Following the Equator

Following the Equator, chapter XXI
Original engl.: Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
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Following the Equator, chapter LXI
Original engl.: "In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards."
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Variante: Zuerst schuf Gott die Idioten. Das war zur Übung. Dann schuf er die Verlags-Lektoren.

Following the Equator, chapter LVI.
Original engl.: "There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can."
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Following the Equator, Kap. XII
Original engl.: "Faith is believing what you know ain't so."
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Following the Equator, chapter XXXII.
Original engl.: "The man with a new idea is a Crank until the idea succeeds."
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Following the Equator, chapter LXVI.
Original engl.: "Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."
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Following the Equator, chapter LXIII und The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, chapter 7
Original engl.: "The principal difference between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives." (Following the Equator)
Original engl.: "One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives" (Pudd'nhead Wilson)
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Following the Equator, chapter XLIX
Original engl.: "The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what; you don't like, and do what you'd druther not."
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Following the Equator, chapter XXVII
Original engl.: "Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to."
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Following the Equator, chapter XVI.
Original engl.: "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 avoid it, and that the Immoral Sense enables us to perceive immorality and how to enjoy it."
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Following the Equator, Kap. XLIII
Original engl.: "Hunger is the handmaid of genius."
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Unterwegs: Aus Querkopf Wilsons Neuem Kalender, EulenSpiegelVerlag, S. 116
"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.” Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar
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Following the Equator, Kap. IV, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar
Original engl.: "A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment."
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Following the Equator, Kap. XX
Original engl.: "It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them."
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Following the Equator, chapter X
Original engl.: "The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow."
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Following the Equator, chapter VII
Original engl.: "Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it."
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Following the Equator, chapter XXV
Original engl.: »Classic.« A book which people praise and don't read."
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Following the Equator, chapter LXIX
Original engl.: "There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights."
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Following the Equator, chapter XXXVI.
Original engl.: "There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice."
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