WIST QuotationsCustoms 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)]
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Twain, Mark - Essay (1906), "The Gorky Incident," Letters from the Earth (c. 1909; pub. 1962) [ed. DeVoto (1939)] | WIST Quotations
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. Commenting on the eviction of Maxim Gorky from multiple hotels in New York…
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