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QuoteAges 14–15 · The Moral Imagination
But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.
Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain), 1884
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884

The closing of the novel. Twain on the impossibility of civilization for a certain kind of American.

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