"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom."

Bacon, Francis on Custom
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"Custom reconciles us to everything."

Burke, Edmund on Custom
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"Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe."

Davenport, Charles on Custom
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"Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them."

Hardy, Thomas on Custom
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"Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room."

Hazlitt, William on Custom
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"Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth."

Hill, Aaron on Custom
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"Custom, then, is the great guide of human life."

Hume, David on Custom
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"The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement."

Mill, John Stuart on Custom
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"Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on Custom
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"The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on Custom
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"Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit."

Ovid on Custom
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"Laws are subordinate to custom."

Plautus, Titus Maccius on Custom
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"Custom is a tyrant."

Proverb on Custom
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"The empire of custom is most mighty."

Syrus, Publilius on Custom
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"Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it."

Twain, Mark on Custom
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"People do more from custom than from reason."

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"Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art."

Updike, John on Custom
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