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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

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Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. – 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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Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. – David Hume

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

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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement. – John Stuart Mill

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