Mark Twain Quotes About Adventure
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Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?
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You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly—Tom's Aunt Polly, she is—and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.
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An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.
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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.
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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
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You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter. That book was made by a Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.
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Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.
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