Mark Twain — "Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that i…"
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
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About Mark Twain (1835-1910)
American humorist and inventor of the American vernacular novel; author of Huckleberry Finn (1884) and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Closely associated with William Dean Howells (his close friend, editor, and 'Dean of American Letters') and Bret Harte (early collaborator on Western frontier humor). For an intellectual contrast, see Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science movement — Twain's Christian Science (1907) is a 200-page sustained polemic against Eddy's claims of supernatural healing — the longest sustained attack of his career.
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From 'Letters from the Earth'.
Date: c. 1909 (written), 1962 (published posthumously)
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