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Tom Sawyer Abroad Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain
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“I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”
Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad
“A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.”
Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad
“There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about. -- Huck Finn”
Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad
“As near as I can make out, geniuses think they know it all, and so they won't take people's advice, but always go their own way, which makes everybody forsake them and despise them, and that is perfectly natural. If they was humbler, and listened and tried to learn, it would be better for them.”
Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad
“I don't see any use in finding out things and clogging up my head with them when I mayn't ever have any occasion to use 'em.”
Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad
“He was a good enough sort of cretur, and hadn't no harm in him, and was just a genius, as the papers said, which wasn't his fault.”
Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad
“So it shows that for all the brag you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instink is worth forty of it for real unerringness. Jim says the same.”
Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad
“It was a new business to me, and I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says:

“Yes; the little ones does.”
Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad
“А ведь я вовсе не думал говорить что-нибудь умное – оно у меня само вырвалось.”
Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad