TOM SAWYER QUOTE ABOUT NOT MEETING EXPECTATIONS THE BIBLE T

“He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it – namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”

“There are many things that we buy that we don’t want, but we’re afraid we won’t have the chance to buy them again if we don’t get them.”

“It is a glad day, O Lord! A day of joy and mirth, and music and dancing, and maiden’s gladness and joys forever.”

“Tom’s whole class were Canadians, and without breaking my oath I can say that they were so.”

“I am not sorry that I am one of those who have been saved, but I have a right to be, and so has my neighbor.”

“You are the only man I ever liked, and I have liked you ever since you were born.”

“I knowed mighty well that there is some way to find out everything that I want to know.”

“Pleasure would not be there if it were not for the feelings that come with the things that give it.”

“I do not want to talk about my sins, and I am not going to talk about them.”

“Most people are unable to resist like this, and so they go on, living always on the froward, like pigeons.”

“There was a strict law against school and Sabbath break in that quiet neighborhood, but those things never had any terrors for me.”

“I would rather be right than to be President.”

“I went to sleep reading those books, again and again; and again and again I woke up with a dream.” HORSE SAYINGS AND QUOTES

“I am not made to do things that equal swindle. It is a thing that is not worthy of me.”

“I have always believed that people were better than they seemed.”

“It ain’t a-spoiling their fun [to secretly witness their preparations while they think they are alone], neither, because they don’t know what you are up to.”

“That just proves something I’ve always said-she’s meritorious.”

“Well, can’t you speak?”

“Yes, marster, I–”

“Then speak out.”

“I used to sit up in my room and think out stories so true, that I could hear them happen in the night.”

“I says, ‘If you give me the light, I will arm; if you don’t, I won’t,’ and so they let the light go out.”

“I have seen kids that have had everything that you could wish for, and yet they were not happy.”

“When you’ve lost everything in the world, is that a small thing?”

“The price of glory is high, and therefore we must get some good out of it.”