Цитаты из книги автора Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

he seated himself on its outer edge and contemplated the dreary vastness of the stream, wishing, the while, that he could only be drowned, all at once and unconsciously, without undergoing the uncomfortable routine devised by nature

There was a song in every heart; and if the heart was young the music issued at the lips.

Like many other simple–hearted souls, it was her pet vanity to believe she was endowed with a talent for dark and mysterious diplomacy, and she loved to contemplate her most transparent devices as marvels of low cunning.

She seldom or never looked THROUGH them for so small a thing as a boy

Some of us pumped on our heads—mine's damp yet. See?"

voice at an angle calculated for distance and shouted:

we GOT to keep mum

tossed and fidgeted

hither and thither

for knowledge is worth more than anything there is in the world;