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Custom is a tyrant.
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Proverb
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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Edmund Burke
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63 votes
Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.
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Charles Davenport
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46 votes
Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.
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David Hume
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Laws are subordinate to custom.
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Titus Maccius Plautus
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37 votes
Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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47 votes
Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
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Ovid
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38 votes
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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Thomas Hardy
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138 votes
Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
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Mark Twain
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32 votes
People do more from custom than from reason.
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Source Unknown
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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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John Stuart Mill
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57 votes
The empire of custom is most mighty.
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Publilius Syrus
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20 votes
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
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William Hazlitt
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43 votes