Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Monday – February 27, 2023
“Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.” The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
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“Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.” The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
“That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.” The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.” The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself:
‘All right, then, I’ll go to hell’- and tore it up.” The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884
“I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.” Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884
“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There is nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.” Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa, 1935
Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.” Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1885