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  1. A quotation from Twain

    Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one may reason all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

    Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
    Essay (1906), “The Gorky Incident,” Letters from the Earth (c. 1909; pub. 1962) [ed. DeVoto (1939)]

    More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/84115/

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