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Quotes from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain

1835–1910 United States

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To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)

H'aint we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)

Jim was most ruined for a servant, because he got stuck up on account of having seen the devil and been rode by witches.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)

Give a nigger an inch and he’ll take an ell.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)

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.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)

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.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)

I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself, "All right, then, I'll go to hell."

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)

It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger—but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterwards, neither.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)

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.
BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)

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