“Pilgrim's Progress, about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.”

— Mark Twain, book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), Ch. 17

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