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Mark Twain in Eruption, unpublished memoirs edited by Bernard DeVoto [1940]
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
