A Tramp Abroad / Following the Equator / Other Travels Quotes

“Well, then, it's a government glacier," said Harris. "It's all the same. Over here the government runs everything—so everything's slow; slow, and ill-managed. But with us, everything's done by private enterprise—and then there ain't much lolling around, you can depend on it. I wish Tom Scott could get his hands on this torpid old slab once—you'd see it take a different gait from this.”
― Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad / Following the Equator / Other Travels

“Australian History does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies; and all of a fresh new sort. No mouldy old stale ones. It is full of surprises and adventures and incongruities and contradictions and incredibilities; but they are all true, they all happened.”
― Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad / Following the Equator / Other Travels