What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father create…

Mark Twain
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What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey. ✨ Mark Twain (1940). Mark Twain in eruption: hitherto unpublished pages about men and events, Harper & Brothers
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What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey. ✨ Mark Twain (1940). Mark Twain in eruption: hitherto unpublished pages about men and events, Harper & Brothers

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