The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

"We judged that three nights more would fetch us all the way to Cairo."

"He was most ruined for a while, and didn't know nothing at all."

"I went to school most all the time and could spell and read and write just a little."

"We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all."

"You don't know about me without you have read a book called The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."

"It was awful thoughts and awful words, but I said them anyway."

"I never wanted to talk much about the other night."

"The widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me."

"All right, then, I'll go to hell."

"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."

"It don't make no difference how foolish it is, it's the right way."

"A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on."

"Human nature is the same all over; people want to be amused."

"Nobility is the natural condition of mankind."

"So I quit thinking about it."

"I felt bad."

"That's what people will call progress."

"We laughed and laughed till we couldn't laugh no more."

"I thought I would see what was next on the agenda."

"I was most powerfully asleep."

"I never seen anything like it."

"Nobody can deny that the preaching was powerful good, but I didn't hear much."

"I can't ever tell you how grateful I am."

"I couldn't understand why he warn't satisfied."

"It would get so lonesome, and so still, and so mournful, away in the night."

"All I wanted was to go somewhere all by myself."

"We was always naked, day and night, whenever the mosquitoes would let us."

"Says I, what's the use you learning to do right when it ain't no trouble to do wrong?"

"I judged I would take up wickedness again, which was in my line."

"Nothing couldn't be better."