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| There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. | Mark Twain | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |  |
| "The average man don't like trouble and danger." | Mark Twain | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |  |
| "The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness." | Mark Twain | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |  |
| Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully. | Mark Twain | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |  |
| "All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised." | Mark Twain | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |  |
| It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened. | Mark Twain | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |  |
| We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft. | Mark Twain | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |  |
| Pray for me! I reckoned if she knowed me she'd take a job that was more nearer her size. But I bet she done it, just the same--she was just that kind. She had the grit to pray for Judus if she took the notion--there warn't no back-down to her, I judge. | Mark Twain | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |  |
| I hain't ever seen her since that time that I see her go out of that door; no, I hain't ever seen her since, but I reckon I've thought of her a many and a many a million times, and of her saying she would pray for me; and if ever I'd a thought it would do any good for me to pray for HER, blamed if I wouldn't a done it or bust. | Mark Twain | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |  |
| . . . there warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different. | Mark Twain | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |  |