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    The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow--so arbitrary are these transient laws.

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You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let read more

You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.

by Martha Graham Found in: Custom Quotes,
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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

by Francis Bacon Found in: Custom Quotes,
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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.

by Joseph Anderson Found in: Custom Quotes,
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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.

by Dante Alighieri Found in: Custom Quotes,
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Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.

Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.

by Thomas Fuller Found in: Custom Quotes,
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Custom adapts itself to expediency

Custom adapts itself to expediency

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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.

by Mark Twain Found in: Custom Quotes,
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Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.

by Joseph Wood Krutch Found in: Custom Quotes,
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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.

by Thomas Carlyle Found in: Custom Quotes,
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