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The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown up to maturity, is not upon many occasions so much the cause as the effect of the division of labour. The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature as from habit, custom, and education. When they came into the world, and for the first six or eight years of their existence, they were perhaps very much alike, and neither their parents nor playfellows could perceive any remarkable difference... – Adam Smith	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The tipping custom originated in England when small sums were dropped into a box marked T.I.P.S. --TO INSURE PROMPT SERVICE. – Author Unknown, (apocryphal)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Custom is the great guide of human life. – David Hume	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinite variety other women cloyThe appetites they feed, but she makes hungryWhere most she satisfies. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room. – William Hazlitt	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent. – Lady Nancy Astor	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If ever a man could have felt the church to be unnecessary, he was Jesus. Yet he did not stay away form the church of his day. It was his custom to go to the synagogue on the Sabbath, and he made many trips to the temple. – R. Brokhoff	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth. – Johann Georg von Zimmermann	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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