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

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THEOLOGY

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What is the order of theological evolution: does a person first become an idiot & then a theologian, or is it the other way about?
- marginalia, on p. 204 (Vol. 1) A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by Andrew Dickson White, 2 vols. (Appleton, 1901).

Doubtless theology & dysentery are two of the most enervating diseases a person can have.
- marginalia, on p. 205 (Vol. 1) A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by Andrew Dickson White, 2 vols. (Appleton, 1901).

It is dull, & I need wholesome excitements & distractions, so I will go lightly excursioning along the primrose path of theology.
- marginalia on the typescript of "Little Bessie," reprinted in Fables of Man, edited by John S. Tuckey

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