Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecut…

Mark Twain
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Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR per G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE ✨ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Notice (1884)
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