Mark Twain Quotes on Tradition
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Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world - and never will.
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He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.
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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.
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Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.