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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.
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
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 has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom read more
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
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.
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.
The old ways are the safest and surest ways.
The old ways are the safest and surest ways.
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.
