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A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a si… - Mark Twain
" "A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell — mouths mercy, and invented hell — mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!
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About Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known as Mark Twain, was an American humorist, novelist, writer, and lecturer.
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Sieur Louis de Conte
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Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass
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Quintus Curtius Snodgrass
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J. W. Bothwell
Birth Name:
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
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Samuel L. Clemens
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Samuel Clemens
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Louis de Conte
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