Quote#Wisdom
There was no getting around the stubborn fact that taking sweetmeats…
Quote byMark Twain · 1835–1910
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Ch. 13.
English (original)
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.
— Mark Twain
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