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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.
Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
Custom adapts itself to expediency
Custom adapts itself to expediency
Custom is the great guide to human life
Custom is the great guide to human life
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.
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.
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.
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.