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"The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom."
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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."
"He could see that drinking and conversation were inexorably intertwined and that one did not occur without the other."
"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."
"The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom."
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"We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom."
"Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided."
"There never were two opinions alike in all the world no more than two hours or two grains: the most universal quality is diversity."
"Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves."
"I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood.... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world."
"I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind."
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