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Custom is the great guide to human life
Custom is the great guide to human life
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.
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 old ways are the safest and surest ways.
The old ways are the safest and surest ways.
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.
Ancient custom has the force of law.
Ancient custom has the force of law.
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.
Custom adapts itself to expediency
Custom adapts itself to expediency
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.
