You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of i…

Mark Twain
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You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year. ✨ Mark Twain (2011). Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians: And Other Unfinished Stories, p.285, Univ of California Press
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You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year. ✨ Mark Twain (2011). Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians: And Other Unfinished Stories, p.285, Univ of California Press

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