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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.
Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.
Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.
Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.
Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.
Custom is the great guide to human life
Custom is the great guide to human life
Custom adapts itself to expediency
Custom adapts itself to expediency
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to read more
Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom.
We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, read more
We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs read more
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
