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

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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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. – Thomas Hardy

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Custom reconciles us to everything. – Edmund Burke

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Custom is a tyrant. – Proverb

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Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit. – Ovid

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

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