Be good and you will be lonesome. — Mark Twain

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Be good and you will be lonesome.

Mark Twain

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World · 1897

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Holding to one's principles Loneliness Moral principles Morality

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Travel writing

Time

1897

Person

Mark Twain

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Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1897, frontispiece.

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