| It was a beautiful life, a lovely life.
There was no crime. Merely little things like pillaging orchards and watermelon
patches and breaking the Sabbath -- we didn't break the Sabbath often enough
to signify -- once a week perhaps. ...we were good Presbyterian boys when
the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from
the fold. - Mark Twain's "Sixty-Seventh Birthday" speech, 28 November 1902 |
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The day of rest comes but once a week, and sorry am I that it does not
come oftener. Man is so constituted that he can stand more rest than this.
I often think regretfully that it would have been so easy to have two
Sunday's in a week, and yet it was not so ordained. The omnipotent Creator
could have made the world in three days just as easily as he made it in
six, and this would have doubled the Sundays. Still it is not our place
to criticize the wisdom of the Creator. Some people seem to read it Remember the Sabbath day to break it wholly. |
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