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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.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Gorky Incident (1906)
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6fc43b24db5f7896b3a15a1027c2cead5bcaa8ef7a64f6ff5932b82c78340a1e
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