# Quote — Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

> There was no getting around the stubborn fact that taking sweetmeats was only "hooking," while taking bacon and hams and such valuables was plain simple stealing — and there was a command against that in the Bible. So they inwardly resolved that so long as they remained in the business, their piracies should not again be sullied with the crime of stealing.

- 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)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Twain#The_Adventures_of_Tom_Sawyer_(1876)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Topics: [morality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer/there-was-no-getting

## More from this book

> Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer/often-the-less.md)

Topics: [change](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change.md)

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

p. 32 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer/work-consists-of-whatever.md)

Topics: [work](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/work.md)

> “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.”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer/whats-your-name.md)