Quotes from bookLife 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.”
Mark Twain book Life on the Mississippi
Source: Life on the Mississippi