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

—  Mark Twain, book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), Ch. 2

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American author and humorist 1835–1910

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