"Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey."
— Bernard DeVoto

January 1, 1970

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Sources

Mark Twain in Eruption (New York: Harper & Bros., 1940), introduction (p. xxvii)