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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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The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue. – David Hume

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There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it. – David Hume

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

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Laws are subordinate to custom. – Plautus

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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth. – Aaron Hill

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