The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.
Mark TwainLaws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
Mark TwainWell - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands that the brother over the border shall be sharply watched and brought to book every time he does us a hurt or offends us with an insult.
Mark Twain