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Artificial Quote by Mark Twain

“It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial.” quote by Mark Twain — Download Open image

“It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial.”

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