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

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Laws are subordinate to custom. – Plautus

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Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit. – Ovid

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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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