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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.
There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in read more
There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in customs, institutions and monuments.
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 is the great guide to human life
Custom is the great guide to human life
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.
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.
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.
Custom adapts itself to expediency
Custom adapts itself to expediency
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.