Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Ch. 35
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the novel Tom Sawyer has several adventures, often with his friend Huckleberry Finn. Originally a commercial failure, the book ended up being the best selling of any of Twain's works during his lifetime.Though overshadowed by its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the book is by many considered a masterpiece of American literature, and was one of the first novels to be written on a typewriter.
Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Ch. 2
Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Ch. 5
Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Ch. 13
Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Ch. 2
“Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene”
Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Variant: To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Ch. 22.
Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Ch. 2
“Well, everybody does it that way, Huck."
"Tom, I am not everybody.”
Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it”
Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
