# Quote — Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

> Everybody yelled at him, and laughed at him, and sassed him, and he sassed back, and said he'd attend to them and lay them out in their regular turns, but he couldn't wait now, because he'd come to town to kill old Colonel Sherburn, and his motto was, "Meat first, and spoon vittles to top off on."

- Author: [Mark Twain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain.md)
- Book: [The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn.md)
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> All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.

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> The average man don’t like trouble and danger.

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> I couldn’t bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn’t think about nothing else.

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