“Now there you have a sample of man’s “reasoning powers,” as he calls them. He observes certain facts. For instance, that in all his life he never sees the day that he can satisfy one woman; also, that no woman ever sees the day that she can’t overwork, and defeat, and put out of commission any ten masculine plants that can be put to bed to her. He puts those strikingly suggestive and luminous facts together, and from them draws this astonishing conclusion: The Creator intended the woman to be restricted to one man.”
― Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings
― Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings
“He has one code of morals for himself, and quite another for his children. He requires his children to deal justly—and gently—with offenders, and forgive them seventy-and-seven times; whereas he deals neither justly nor gently with anyone, and he did not forgive the ignorant and thoughtless first pair of juveniles even their first small offense and say, “You may go free this time, I will give you another chance.”
― Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings
― Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings
“I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.”
― Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings
― Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings
“Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.”
― Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings
― Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings
“Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at birth. Children in the cradle. School children. Youths and maidens. Fresh adults. Older ones. Men and women of 40. Of 50. Of 60. Of 70. Of 80. Of 100. The command does not distribute its burden equally, and cannot. It is not hard upon the three sets of children.”
― Letters From The Earth: Uncensored Writings By Mark Twain
― Letters From The Earth: Uncensored Writings By Mark Twain
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