Mosques are plenty, churches are plenty, graveyards are plenty, but morals and whisky are scarce. The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy. It makes our cheeks burn with shame to see such a thing permitted here in Turkey. We do not mind it so much in Salt Lake, however.
~ Mark Twain The Innocents Abroad Chapter 7 originally published 1869
Note: Mormons had not abandoned polygamy at this point. Today, they have abandoned polygamy for over a century.
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