Satan had been making admiring remarks about certain of the Creator's sparkling industries - - remarks which, being read between the lines, were sarcasms.
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This quote from Mark Twain's 'Letters from the Earth' offers a brilliantly satirical perspective on the nature of evil and divine creation. Twain humorously suggests that Satan, often seen as the embodiment of evil, is actually praising certain aspects of creation—possibly human ingenuity, beauty, or innovation—in an apparently admiring way. However, reading
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