"The best interpreter of the law is custom."

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"He could see that drinking and conversation were inexorably intertwined and that one did not occur without the other."

Kenneth Eade, American Author

Custom, Socializing, Habit, Conversation

"I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom."

Adam Jones, American Musician

Custom,

"No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion."

Carrie Chapman Catt, American Activist

Custom, Law, Opinion, Popular

"The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

Custom, Laws, World

"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."

Tom Selleck, American Actor

Custom, Excitement, Order, Years

"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."

Martin Chemnitz, German Theologian

Custom, Day

"The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it."

John Owen, English Theologian

Custom, Sense, Shame, World

"The best interpreter of the law is custom."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Custom, Law

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"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."

Education

"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil."

Wisdom

"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends."

Friendship

"We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names."

Books

"Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive."

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"A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him."

Character

"To some extent I liken slavery to death."

Death

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"He could see that drinking and conversation were inexorably intertwined and that one did not occur without the other."

"I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom."

"No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion."

"The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom."

"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."

"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."

"The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it."

"The best interpreter of the law is custom."

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"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."

"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil."

"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends."

"A home without books is a body without soul."

"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."

"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."

"We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names."

"Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive."

"A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him."

"To some extent I liken slavery to death."