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"The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom."
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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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"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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"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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"He could see that drinking and conversation were inexorably intertwined and that one did not occur without the other."
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"Ambition is not a vice of little people."
People
"In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum."
Education
"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."
Age
"He who does not live in some degree for others hardly lives for himself."
Philosophy
"Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly."
Caution
"I quote others in order to better express my own self."
Inspirational
"Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments."
Reflection
"It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her."
Art
"If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it."
Nature
"The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will."
Life
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