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Edmund Burke
Custom reconciles us to everything
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Amos Alcott
A good style fits like a good costume
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Dante Alighieri
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well
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Miguel Cervantes
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome
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Ovid
Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit
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Bernard Shaw
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
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Jean de La Bruy�re
Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar
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Francis Bacon
Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom
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Francis Bacon
Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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