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 Custom adapts itself to expediency

 Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feeling and our manners, and rules us with the imperious hand of a despot
  Hermann Hesse

 Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned
  Joseph Wood Krutch

 Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned
  Joseph Wood Krutch

 Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful
  Michel de Montaigne

 Custom is petrification; nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century
  Mark Twain

 Custom is the great guide to human life
  David Hume

 Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools
  Thomas Fuller

 Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life
  Francis Bacon

 Custom reconciles us to everything
  Edmund Burke

 Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular
  Benjamin Disraeli

 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.
  Hermann Hesse

 Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.
  Mark Twain

 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.
  Ruth Benedict

 The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
  Dante Alighieri


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