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"The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom."
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"The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it."
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"No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion."
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"To me, the excitement is in ordering a fine shotgun, going through the process that everybody who has bought one has gone through for 100 years. You order it, you make a significant down payment, and then you wait three or four years for the gun to be custom-made for you."
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"Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, some only on the Lord's Day."
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"I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom."
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"The best interpreter of the law is custom."
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"The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom."
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"He could see that drinking and conversation were inexorably intertwined and that one did not occur without the other."
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"We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom."
Wisdom
"The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness."
Joy
"Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to be deceived in my own inability; but sprinkling here one word and there another, patterns cut from severalpieces and scattered without design and without engaging myself too far, I am not responsible for them, or obliged to keep close to my subject, without varying at my own liberty and pleasure, and giving up myself to doubt and uncertainty, and to myown governing method, ignorance."
Self
"Desire and hope will push us on toward the future."
Future
"Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chance we live."
Fate
"I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better."
Mind
"The natural heat, say the good-fellows,first seats itself in the feet: that concerns infancy; thence it mounts into the middleregion, where it makes a long abode and produces, in my opinion, the sole true pleasures of human life; all other pleasures in comparison sleep; towards the end, like a vapor that still mounts upward, it arrives at the throat, where it makes its final residence, and concludes the progress."
Life
"D'autant que nous avons cher, estre, et estre consiste en mouvement et action."
Philosophy
"We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany."
Identity
"No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends."
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