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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

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A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty. – David Hume

Category:
Fear
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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

Category:
Beauty
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David Hume
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When men are the most sure and arrogant they are commonly the most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation and suspense which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities. – David Hume

Category:
Certainty
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David Hume
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Customs
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Custom reconciles us to everything. – Edmund Burke

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Customs

Laws are subordinate to custom. – Plautus

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Customs

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

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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

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Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it. – Edmond de Goncourt

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