Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.
Mark Twain
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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
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You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.
Martha Graham
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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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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
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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
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Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feeling and our manners, and rules us with the imperious hand of a despot
Thomas Carlyle
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There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in customs, institutions and monuments.
Joseph Anderson
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Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.
J. Bartlett
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Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.
Mark Twain
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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow--so arbitrary are these transient laws.
Alexander Dumas
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Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom.
Francis Bacon
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We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.
Thomas Carlyle
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