“The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.” — Edgar Allan Poe, The Spectacles
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“Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.” — George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra
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“Our affections divide us. We strike roots in immediate time and space, and fall in love with our locality, the customs and the language in which we were brought up. Intelligence unites us with mankind, by leading us in sympathy to other times, other places, other customs.” — John Erskine, The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent
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“Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., “The Path of the Law,” Address to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts at the dedication of the new hall of the Boston University School of Law on (8 January 1897)
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“Modes and customs vary often, but that human nature is always the same.” — Philip Stanhope, Letters To His Son, February 7, 1749
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“Where, not the person’s own character, but the traditions of customs of other people are the rule of conduct, there is wanting one of the principal ingredients of human happiness, and quite the chief ingredient of individual and social progress.” — John Stuart Mill
“Where, not the person’s own character, but the traditions of customs of other people are the rule of conduct, there is wanting one of the principal ingredients of human happiness, and quite the chief ingredient of individual and social progress.” — John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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