Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right/Quotes

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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
Huck: It was a close place. I took [the letter giving Jim away] up, and held it in my hand. I was a trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: "All right, then, I'll go to hell!"—and tore it up.