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The old ways are the safest and surest ways.
The old ways are the safest and surest ways.
Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.
Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.
Custom adapts itself to expediency
Custom adapts itself to expediency
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs read more
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
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.
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
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.
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.
