Mark Twain on Conscience
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
So we poked along back home, and I warn't feeling so brash as I was
before, but kind of ornery, and humble, and to blame somehow — though
I hadn't done nothing. But that's always the way; it don't make no
difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't
got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yaller dog that
didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow. Tom Sawyer he says the same.
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