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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.
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.
Custom is the great guide to human life
Custom is the great guide to human life
Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.
Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.
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 has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.
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 plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.
Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.
