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Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
The old ways are the safest and surest ways.
The old ways are the safest and surest ways.
Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.
Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom read more
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned
Custom adapts itself to expediency
Custom adapts itself to expediency
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feeling and our manners, and rules us with the imperious read more
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feeling and our manners, and rules us with the imperious hand of a despot
Custom is the great guide to human life
Custom is the great guide to human life
