Quote by Edmund Burke
Custom reconciles us to everything. - Edmund Burke

Custom reconciles us to everything. – Edmund Burke

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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. – Edmund Burke

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Whenever our neighbors house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. – Edmund Burke

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Laws are subordinate to custom. – Plautus

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

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The empire of custom is most mighty. – Publilius Syrus

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Custom is a tyrant. – Proverb

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