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Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.
Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.
Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its read more
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.
Custom adapts itself to expediency
Custom adapts itself to expediency
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 principle magistrate of man's life.
Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
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.
You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let read more
You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
