The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to hu

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

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Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit. – Ovid

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

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Custom is a tyrant. – Proverb

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