Huckleberry Finn, Connecticut Yankee

obedience-and-authority

• Perhaps I ought not to presume to meddle…delivering them with unction in the sounding grandeurs of the original tongues, they being from the Mastodon, the Dodo, and other dead languages.

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• There is a law as old as Germany: if any woman sit in the great ducal chair before she hath been crowned—SHE SHALL DIE!

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ambition-and-status

• The crawling insect, Buckner, who edits the Hurrah, is braying about his business with his customary imbecility, and imagining that he is talking sense.

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• I asked him if he learned to talk out of a book…He smiled pleasantly, and said his manner of speaking was not taught in books.

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self-and-identity

• We never read the dull explanatory surroundings of marvelously exciting things…we skip all that, and hasten to revel in the blood-curdling particulars.

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• I was bewildered beyond description…its dreadful details overpowered me, and I was glad he was gone.

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