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7 quotes from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.

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I am an American. I was born and reared in Hartford, in the State of Connecticut—anyway, just over the river, in the country.
— Hank Morgan · Hank Morgan in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)
“Bridgeport?” said I, pointing. “Camelot,” said he.
— Hank Morgan · Hank Morgan in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)
There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years
— Hank Morgan · Hank Morgan in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)
What this folk needed, then, was a Reign of Terror and a guillotine, and I was the wrong man for them.
— Hank Morgan · Hank Morgan in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)
The question as to whether there is such a thing as divine right of kings is not settled in this book. It was found too difficult.
— Mark Twain, preface to A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)
He sleepeth now—and shall sleep thirteen centuries. I am Merlin!
— Merlin · Merlin in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)
I wanted to say a Yankee mechanic's say against monarchy and its several natural props
— Mark Twain, letter to his London publishers, quoted in Albert Bigelow Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography (1912), Chapter CLXXII

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