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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

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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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

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Certainty
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David Hume
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Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived. – David Hume

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Beauty
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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

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

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Customs

The empire of custom is most mighty. – Publilius Syrus

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Customs

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

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Customs

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American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party. – Sue Lawley, 1985

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