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

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

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

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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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