# Quote — Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

> She makes me get up just at the same time every morning; she makes me wash, they comb me all to thunder; she won't let me sleep in the woodshed; I got to wear them blamed clothes that just smothers me, Tom; they don't seem to let any air git through 'em, somehow; and they're so rotten nice that I can't set down, nor lay down, nor roll around anywher's; I hain't slid on a cellar-door for — well, it 'pears to be years; I got to go to church and sweat and sweat — I hate them ornery sermons! I can't ketch a fly in there, I can't chaw. I got to wear shoes all Sunday. The widder eats by a bell; she goes to bed by a bell; she gits up by a bell — everything's so awful reg'lar a body can't stand it.

- Author: [Mark Twain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain.md)
- Book: [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer.md)
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- Topics: [freedom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom.md)
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> Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.

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> Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and...Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

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> “What’s your name?”
>
> “Becky Thatcher. What’s yours? Oh, I know. It’s Thomas Sawyer.”
>
> “That’s the name they lick me by. I’m Tom when I’m good.”

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