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.


Mark Twain in Eruption, unpublished memoirs edited by Bernard DeVoto [1940]


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...

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...

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...

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...