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Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice...for we have no other criterion of reason than the example and idea of the opinions and customs of the country we live in.

– Michel de Montaigne

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Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

– Dante Alighieri

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Every man thinks with himself, I am well, I am wise, and laughs at others; and ?tis a general fault amongst them all, that which our forefathers approved?diet, apparel, humours, customs, manners?we deride and reject in our time as absurd.

– Burton

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Petrarch observes, that we change language, habits, laws, customs, manners, but not vices, not diseases, not the symptoms of folly and madness?they are still the same. And as a river, we see, keeps the like name and place, but not water, and yet ever runs, our times and persons alter, vices are the same, and ever be. Look how nightingales sang of old, cocks crowed, kine lowed, sheep bleated, sparrows chirped, dogs barked, so they do still: we keep our madness still, play the fool still; we are of the same humours and inclinations as our predecessors were; you shall find us all alike, much as one, we and our sons, and so shall our posterity continue to the last.

– Burton

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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, "Ceasar and Cleopatra"

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Customs are more powerful than laws.

– The Talmud

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Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature

– George Bernard Shaw

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Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

– Mark Twain

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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

– Edward C. Banfield

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Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

– J. Martin Kohe

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