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SABBATH

Twain in bed
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Dave Thomson
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.
- "Reflections on the Sabbath"

But we were good boys...we didn't break the Sabbath often enough to signify--once a week perhaps...Anyway, 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


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