It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the…

Mark Twain
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It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script. ✨ Mark Twain (2012). Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations, p.149, Courier Corporation
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It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script. ✨ Mark Twain (2012). Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations, p.149, Courier Corporation

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