[Following the Equator Part 5 by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookFollowing the Equator Part 5 CHAPTER XLVII 1/21
Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait, and count forty.
To save three-quarters, count sixty.
To save it all, count sixty-five. -- Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar. The Thug said: "How many of you English are passionately devoted to sporting! Your days and months are passed in its excitement.
A tiger, a panther, a buffalo or a hog rouses your utmost energies for its destruction--you even risk your lives in its pursuit.
How much higher game is a Thug's!" That must really be the secret of the rise and development of Thuggee. The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done--these are traits of the human race at large.
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