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Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.
Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow--so arbitrary are these transient laws.
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow--so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the read more
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.
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.
Custom is the great guide to human life
Custom is the great guide to human life
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.
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.
