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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.

Mark Twain

Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910), U.S. author. Huckleberry Finn, "Notice—By Order of the Author," (1884).

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