What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking? Author: Mark Twain Copy Quote More from Mark Twain “What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work…” “Yes, take it all around, there is quite a good deal of information in the book.…” “for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.” “You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things …”