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Quote by David Hume
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

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. – David Hume

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Religion
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David Hume
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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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A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century. – David Hume

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History
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Other Quotes from
Customs
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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement. – John Stuart Mill

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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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Customs

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

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Customs

Custom reconciles us to everything. – Edmund Burke

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Customs

Random Quotes

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most. – Samuel Johnson

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Evangelism

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. – John Stuart Mill

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Courage

I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too. – Ulrich Beck

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Technology

Were in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all. – Jeff Zucker

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Technology