Mark Twain quote about death from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Ah, if he could only die temporarily!
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Ah, if he could only die temporarily!
 Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). copy citation

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Author Mark Twain
Source The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Topic death wish
Date 1876
Language English
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Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/74/74-h/74-h.htm

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“If he only had a clean Sunday-school record he could be willing to go, and be done with it all. Now as to this girl. What had he done? nothing. He had meant the best in the world, and been treated like a dog—like a very dog. She would be sorry some day—maybe when it was too late. Ah, if he could only die temporarily!
But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time. Tom presently began to drift insensibly back into the concerns of this life again. What if he turned his back, now, and disappeared mysteriously?” source

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