Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
Category: Inspirational
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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
You can cover a great deal of country in books.
I read part of it all the way through.
Live always in the best company when you read.
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it.
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
I am a galley slave to pen and ink.