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Each race determines for itself what indecencies are. Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

Mark Twain

1896

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Custom and convention Moral relativism Moral theory Morality

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1896

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Mark Twain

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 25. Originally from Notebook, c. 1896.

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