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You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.

Martha Graham (1894-1991)

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned

Joseph Wood Krutch (1893-1970)

Joseph Wood Krutch

Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Mark Twain

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feeling and our manners, and rules us with the imperious hand of a despot

Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)

Hermann Hesse

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)

Hermann Hesse

You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.

Martha Graham (1894-1991)

Custom is the great guide to human life

David Hume (1711-1776)

David Hume

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

Ruth Benedict (1887-1948)

Ruth Benedict

We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

Thomas Carlyle

Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)

Michel de Montaigne

Custom adapts itself to expediency

Publius Cornelius Tacitus (55-117)

Custom is petrification; nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Mark Twain

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

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

Dante Alighieri

Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools

Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)

Thomas Fuller

Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

Benjamin Disraeli

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