The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

"I reckoned I would hide in the woods and starve."

"The adventure was worth something."

"I don't take no stock in dead people."

"Being civilized is too restrictive for an active mind."

"School's out, and you don't have to attend anymore."

"I couldn't ever feel bad till after, and then I would."

"It was a beautiful piece of moonlight."

"The more I studied about this, the more my conscience went to grinding me."

"You can't pray a lie."

"I was most ready to cry; I was so mad and so miserable."

"We catched fish, and talked, and had a mighty good time."

"It was a monstrous big river down there."

"Sometimes I wished I was dead."

"I couldn't seem to strike no places to harden on to."

"I reckon a body that ups and tells the truth when he is in a tight place, is taking considerable many resks."

"The stars was shining, and the leaves rustled in the wind ever so slight."

"I never felt easy till the raft was far away down the river."

"Persons is always doing it wrong."

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

"I was powerful glad to get away from the feuds, and so was Jim."

"It's lovely to live on a raft."

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

"If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does, I would pison him."

"I felt so ornery and cheap, I says to myself, my mind ain't right."

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

"There warn't anything to do, now, but to look out sharp for the town, and not pass it without seeing it."

"It was a close call, and I was awful glad to get away from there."

"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."

"I don't take no stock in mathematics"