Quotes from book
Life on the Mississippi

Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. It is also a travel book, recounting his trip along the Mississippi River from St. Louis to New Orleans many years after the war.

“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”
Source: Life on the Mississippi