Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping of the dead. (Robert G. Ingersoll)

Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping of the dead.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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