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Quotes about custom
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom. (Bacon Francis)
Custom reconciles us to everything. (Bacon Francis)
Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe. (Bacon Francis)
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. (Bacon Francis)
Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room. (Bacon Francis)
Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth. (Bacon Francis)
Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. (Bacon Francis)
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement. (Bacon Francis)
Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always. (Bacon Francis)
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom. (Bacon Francis)
Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit. (Bacon Francis)
Laws are subordinate to custom. (Bacon Francis)
Custom is a tyrant. (Bacon Francis)
The empire of custom is most mighty. (Bacon Francis)
Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it. (Bacon Francis)
People do more from custom than from reason. (Bacon Francis)
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. (Bacon Francis)
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