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    Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

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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.

by Joseph Wood Krutch Found in: Custom Quotes,
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The old ways are the safest and surest ways.

The old ways are the safest and surest ways.

by Charles Caleb Colton Found in: Custom Quotes,
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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

by Dante Alighieri Found in: Custom Quotes,
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Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.

Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.

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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.

by Mark Twain Found in: Custom Quotes,
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Custom adapts itself to expediency

Custom adapts itself to expediency

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Tradition is the illusion of permanance.

Tradition is the illusion of permanance.

by Woody Allen Found in: Traditions Quotes,
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Tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking

Tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking

by Grace Mcgarvie Found in: Traditions Quotes,
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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

by Winston Churchill Found in: Traditions Quotes,
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