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Quotation from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain

“One day it occurred to me that it had been many years since the world had been afforded the spectacle of a man adventurous enough to undertake a journey through Europe on foot”

Mark Twain (spoken by Mark Twain (narrator))

A Tramp Abroad, Chapter I (Project Gutenberg #119)

Portrait of Mark Twain

The opening sentence sets up the book's running joke: the walking tour that is mostly made by train, carriage, and raft.

Citation: "One day it occurred to me that it had been many years since the world had been afforded the spectacle of a man adventurous enough to undertake a journey through Europe on foot" — Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad, Chapter I (Project Gutenberg #119). (id a-tramp-abroad-q5)

Portrait: A Tramp Abroad (1880), illustration by True Williams, True Williams, Public domain.

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