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

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

Other quotes by David Hume

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. – David Hume

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good
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David Hume
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Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. – David Hume

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Beauty
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David Hume
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There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves. – David Hume

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Education
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Other Quotes from
Customs
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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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Customs

Custom is a tyrant. – Proverb

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Customs

Laws are subordinate to custom. – Plautus

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Customs

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

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Customs

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Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age. – Herman Hesse

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Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies? – Chester W. Nimitz

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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. – Walter Scott

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Luck runs out but safety is good for life. – Author unknown

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