Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons… — Mark Twain
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · 1884
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Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, edited by R. Kent Rasmussen. Penguin Classics, 2014, notice.
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Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884, notice.
