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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.

Mark Twain

1906

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Custom and convention Legal theory Law

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1906

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Mark Twain

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Twain, Mark. "The Gorky Incident." Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings, edited by Bernard DeVoto. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2004.

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Twain, Mark. The Gorky Incident. 1906.

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