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7 quotes from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.

The Prince and the Pauper

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It may have happened, it may not have happened: but it COULD have happened.

The world is made wrong; kings should go to school to their own laws, at times, and so learn mercy.

— Edward · Edward in Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper (1881)

Then shall the king’s law be law of mercy, from this day, and never more be law of blood!

— Tom Canty · Tom Canty in Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper (1881)

To crack nuts with!

— Tom Canty · Tom Canty in Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper (1881)

I do not know you, woman!

— Tom Canty · Tom Canty in Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper (1881)

And so I am become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows!

— Miles Hendon · Miles Hendon in Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper (1881)

I take so much pleasure in my story that I am loath to hurry, not wanting to get it done.

— Mark Twain, letter to William Dean Howells, quoted in Albert Bigelow Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography (1912), Chapter CXXV

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