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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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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This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. – 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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Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always. – Mary Wortley Montagu

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Custom reconciles us to everything. – Edmund Burke

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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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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. – Thomas Hardy

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