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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.
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.
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.
The old ways are the safest and surest ways.
The old ways are the safest and surest ways.
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feeling and our manners, and rules us with the imperious read more
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feeling and our manners, and rules us with the imperious hand of a despot
Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
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.
