We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outsi…

Mark Twain
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We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us. ✨ Mark Twain (2015). Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World, p.544, eKitap Projesi
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