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I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before.

Mark Twain

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884, ch. 43.

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Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, edited by R. Kent Rasmussen. Penguin Classics, 2014, ch. 43.

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Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 20. Originally from Notebook, c. 1889.

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Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884, notice.

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Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, edited by R. Kent Rasmussen. Penguin Classics, 2014, notice.

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Everything has its limit—iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

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Twain, Mark, [published anonymously]. What is Man? De Vinne Press, 1906.

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Twain, Mark. "What is Man?" What Is Man? and Other Essays. Dover Publications, 2019.

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Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

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Pudd'nhead Wilson

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Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." The Century Magazine, Nov. 1893-Oct. 1894.

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Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." Pudd'nHead Wilson and Other Tales, edited by R.D. Gooder. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 21. Originally from Notebook, c. 1894.

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To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else—these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

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The Innocents Abroad

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Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1869, ch. 26.

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Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress. Random House Publishing Group, 2003, ch. 26.

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I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

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Tom Sawyer Abroad

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Twain, Mark. Tom Sawyer Abroad. New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1894.

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Twain, Mark. "Tom Sawyer Abroad." Mark Twain: The Gilded Age & Later Novels, edited by Hamlin Hill. Library of America, 2002.

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Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 33. Originally from Notebook, c. 1904.

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No people in the world ever did achieve freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed must begin in blood.

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

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Twain, Mark. A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. New York: Charles L. Webster and Co., 1889, ch. 20.

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Twain, Mark. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, edited by Henry B. Wonham. W. W. Norton & Company, 2018, ch. 20.

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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 31. Originally from Notebook, c. 1897

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An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 35. Originally from Notebook, c. 1904.

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 33. Originally from Notebook, 23 May 1903.

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Each race determines for itself what indecencies are. Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 25. Originally from Notebook, c. 1896.

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To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

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Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

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Twain, Mark, [published anonymously]. "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc." Harper's Magazine. New York, Apr. 1895-Apr. 1896.

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Twain, Mark. "Translator's Preface." Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. Dover Publications, 2002.

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

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Twain, Mark. Letter to Mrs. Foote. 2 Dec. 1887.

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Principles have no real force except when one is well fed.

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Twain, Mark. "Extracts from Adam's Diary: Translated from the Original Ms." The Niagara Book. Buffalo: Underhill and Nichols, 1893.

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Twain, Mark. "Extracts from Adam's Diary." The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain, edited by Lawrence Berkove. Modern Library, 2004.

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Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

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Twain, Mark. "The Church Edifice." Christian Science. Harper & Brothers, 1907.

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Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 35. Originally from Notebook, c. 1904.

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Eternal Rest sounds comforting in the pulpit, too. Well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.

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Twain, Mark. "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven." Harper's Magazine, Dec. 1907 - Jan. 1908.

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Twain, Mark. "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven." The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain, edited by Lawrence Berkove. Modern Library, 2004, ch. 1.

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