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Novel · Children's literature · Adventure novel

We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · 1884

★ 2.2

Novel · Adventure novel

Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go... Life is nothing. Life is all. It is the hand with which we hold off death. It is the glow-worm that shines in the night-time and is black in the morning; it is the white breath of the oxen in the winter; it is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself at sunset.

H. Rider Haggard

King Solomon's Mines · 1885

★ 3.5

Novel · Adventure novel

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.

Tom Sawyer Abroad · 1894

★ 3.8

Novel · Historical fiction · Adventure novel

All for one, one for all.

Alexandre Dumas

The Three Musketeers · 1844

★ 3.9

Novel · Children's literature · Adventure novel

I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · 1884

★ 3.9

Novel · Children's literature · Adventure novel

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

★ 3.9

Novel · Children's literature · Adventure novel

It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed, only a little kind of a low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · 1884

★ 3.9

Novel · Adventure novel

I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says: "Yes, the little ones does."

Tom Sawyer Abroad · 1894

★ 3.9

Novel · Children's literature · Adventure novel

In order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer · 1876

★ 4.0

Novel · Children's literature · Adventure novel

All kings is mostly rapscallions.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · 1884

★ 4.0

Novel · Children's literature · Adventure novel

It’s lovely to live on a raft.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · 1884

★ 4.0

Novel · Children's literature · Adventure novel

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · 1884

★ 4.9

Novel · Children's literature · Adventure novel

Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer · 1876

★ 5.5