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American Writer, Humorist, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Lecturer, Lauded as the "greatest Humorist the United States has Produced", and William Faulkner Called him "the Father of American Literature"
: An American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". (From: Wikipedia.org.)
Quote #4 on Social Struggle Quotes >> Sex and Religion
“Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed -- naked and pure-minded; and no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have entered it naked, unashamed, and clean in mind. They have entered it modest. They had to acquire immodesty and the soiled mind; there was no other way to get it. A Christian mother's first duty is to soil her child's mind, and she does not neglect it. Her lad grows up to be a missionary, and goes to the innocent savage and to the civilized Japanese, and soils their minds. Whereupon they adopt immodesty, they conceal their bodies, they stop bathing naked altogether.”
Source: "Letters from the Earth," by Mark Twain. Published by Harper Perennial, edited by Bernard DeVoto. Published posthumously in 1962. Letter 3, page 18.
"Letters from the Earth," by Mark Twain. Published by Harper Perennial, edited by Bernard DeVoto. Published posthumously in 1962.
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