Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.
Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.
Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round- more than a body could tell what to do with.
You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.
I don't want no better book than what your face is.
I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don't reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever. I don't take no stock in mathematics, anyway.
I reckon the widow or the parson or somebody prayed that this bread would find me, and here it have gone and done it. So there ain't no doubt but there is something in that thing. That is, there's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.
If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.
Jim he couldn't see no sense in the most of it, but he allowed we was white folks and knowed better than him;
Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.
Now, we'll start this band of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer's Gang. Everybody that wants to join has got to take an oath, and write his name in blood.
Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better.
Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.
Tallustelin eteenpäin enkä noudattanut mitään erityistä suunnitelmaa, vaan luotin siihen, että Kaitselmus panisi oikeat sanat suuhuni, kun sellainen hetki koittaisi; sillä mä olin pannut merkille, että Kaitselmus pani mulle aina oikeat sanat suuhun, kunhan annoin sen puuhailla omin päin.
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.
Then the old man got to cussing, and cussed everything and everybody he could think of, and then cussed them all over again to make sure he hadn't skipped any, and after that he polished off with a kind of a general cuss all round, including a considerable parcel of people which he didn't know the names of, and so called them what's-his-name, when he got to them, and went right along with his cussing.
We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed, only a kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.
Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.
I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.
I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.
All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.
But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.
He had been drunk over in town, and laid in the gutter all night, and he was a sight to look at. A body would a thought he was Adam, he was just all mud.
He is also known for his quotations.
He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.
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