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- Author: Ambrose Bierce
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- ISBN-10: 1502321904
- ISBN-13: 9781502321909
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.4 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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I know of no savage custom or habit of thought which has not its mate in civilized countries. For every mischievous or absurd practice of the natural man I can name you one of ours that is essentially the same. And nearly every custom of our barbarian ancestors in historic times persists in some form today. We make ourselves look formidable in battle-for that matter, we fight. Our women paint their faces. We feel it obligatory to dress more or less alike, inventing the most ingenious reasons for doing so and actually despising and persecuting those who do not care to conform. Almost within the memory of living persons bearded men were stoned in the streets; and a clergyman in New York who wore his beard as Christ wore his, was put into jail and variously persecuted till he died.
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- Author: Ambrose Bierce
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- ISBN-10: 1502321904
- ISBN-13: 9781502321909
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.4 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
I know of no savage custom or habit of thought which has not its mate in civilized countries. For every mischievous or absurd practice of the natural man I can name you one of ours that is essentially the same. And nearly every custom of our barbarian ancestors in historic times persists in some form today. We make ourselves look formidable in battle-for that matter, we fight. Our women paint their faces. We feel it obligatory to dress more or less alike, inventing the most ingenious reasons for doing so and actually despising and persecuting those who do not care to conform. Almost within the memory of living persons bearded men were stoned in the streets; and a clergyman in New York who wore his beard as Christ wore his, was put into jail and variously persecuted till he died.
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