Mark Twain Quotes About Tradition
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A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.
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Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.
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Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!
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The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it
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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
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[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.
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India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.
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