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Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.

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.

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.

Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.

Ancient custom has the force of law.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

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

The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow--so arbitrary are these transient laws.

Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom.

The old ways are the safest and surest ways.

There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

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.

Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.