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Custom is a tyrant. – Proverb

Custom reconciles us to everything. – Edmund Burke

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe. – Charles Davenport

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. – Thomas Hardy

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth. – Aaron Hill

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. – David Hume

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement. – John Stuart Mill

Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always. – Mary Wortley Montagu

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom. – Michel de Montaigne

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit. – Ovid

Laws are subordinate to custom. – Plautus

The empire of custom is most mighty. – Publilius Syrus

Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it. – Mark Twain

People do more from custom than from reason. – Source Unknown