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Quote by Thomas Hardy
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom i

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

Other quotes by Thomas Hardy

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. – Thomas Hardy

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Success
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Thomas Hardy
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I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion. – Thomas Hardy

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Face, Faces
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Thomas Hardy
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Yes quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down youd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown. – Thomas Hardy

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War
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Customs
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Custom reconciles us to everything. – Edmund Burke

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Customs

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit. – Ovid

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Customs

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

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Customs

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

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Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like. – Johann von Goethe

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I suppose its amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that dont work. – Tim Berners Lee

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