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“Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Gorky Incident (1906)
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 038a51d231bbcf9f41f7f7725e9c6068f45780114da5df368de1475710d289c3
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