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Directory of Mark Twain's maxims, quotations, and various opinions:

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MONKEY

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. I believe that whenever a human being, of even the highest intelligence and culture, delivers, an opinion upon a matter apart from his particular and especial line of interest, training and experience, it will always be an opinion so foolish and so valueless a sort that it can be depended upon to suggest to our Heavenly Father that the human being is another disappointment and that he is no considerable improvement upon the monkey.
- Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 (2013)

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What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
- Mark Twain in Eruption

In discarding the monkey and substituting man, our Father in Heaven did the monkey an undeserved injustice.
- Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 (2013)


 

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