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Directory of Mark Twain's maxims, quotations, and various opinions:

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MARY BAKER EDDY

There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it. At this very day there are thousands upon thousands of Americans of average intelligence who fully believe in "Science and Health," although they can't understand a line of it, and who also worship the sordid and ignorant old purloiner of that gospel -- Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, who they do absolutely believe to be a member, by adoption, of the Holy Family, and on the way to push the Savior to third place and assume occupancy of His present place, and continue that occupancy during the rest of eternity.
- Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 (2013), p. 136. Dictated 22 June 1906.

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Largely speaking, I have read acres of what purported to be Mrs. Eddy's writings, in the past two months. I cannot know, but I am convinced, that the circumstantial evidence shows that her actual share in the work of composing and phrasing these things was so slight as to be inconsequential. Where she puts her literary foot down, her trail across her paid polisher's page is as plain as the elephant's in a Sunday-school procession. Her verbal output, when left undoctored by her clerks, is quite unmistakable.
- Christian Science

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Twain & Eddy cartoon
Cartoon by Albert Levering from
HARPER'S WEEKLY, February 7, 1903
courtesy of Dave Thomson.

Mary Baker Eddy monument
Mary Baker Eddy gravesite monument at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
courtesy of Kevin and Pegge Bochynski
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