Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But t…

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Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden. ✨ The Gorky Incident. Essay by Mark Twain, 1906.
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