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Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
Felix Adler
Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree.
Richard Harris
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
Mary Astell
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
John Stuart Mill
They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
William Congreve
William Hazlitt 
Lydia M. Child 
Ovid 
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Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
Felix Adler 
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Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree.
Richard Harris
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Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
Mary Astell
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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
John Stuart Mill
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They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
William Congreve
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
Michel de Montaigne
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It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.
Lord Chesterfield
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It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.
Pope Gregory VII
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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Marcus Tullius CiceroSamuel Butler PlatoFrancis BaconBlaise PascalWilliam Hazlitt OvidMichel de MontaigneEdmund BurkeLord ChesterfieldSoren KierkegaardDavid HumeJohn Stuart MillJean Jacques RousseauMary Astell
Walter LippmannWill DurantTitus Maccius PlautusThomas Hardy TacitusAdam JonesWilliam CongreveMarcus V. PollioFelix AdlerAlfred Russel WallaceAlfred MarshallWilliam TempleLydia M. ChildWilliam Robertson SmithLewis Tappan
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