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Custom is the great guide to human life
Custom is the great guide to human life
Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
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
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.
Ancient custom has the force of law.
Ancient custom has the force of law.
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.
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 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 has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.
