The Quaker City tour of Europe and the Holy Land, described in The Innocents Abroad, took Mark Twain to Egypt to see the pyramids and other antiquities.
“The Sphynx is grand in its loneliness; it is imposing in its magnitude; it is impressive in the mystery that hangs over its story. And there is that in the overshadowing majesty of this eternal figure of stone, with its accusing memory of the deeds of all ages, which reveals to one something of what he shall feel when he shall stand at last in the awful presence of God.” — Mark Twain
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