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Show Gents of Hbouobt CUSTOM Custom may lead a man into many errors, but it justifies none. Fielding. Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according accord-ing to their learning and inbibed opinions, but generally act according accord-ing to custom. Bacon. Custom, education, and fashion form the transient standards of mortals. Immortality, exempt from age or decay, has a glory of its own the radiance of Soul. Mary Baker Eddy. The custom and fashion of today to-day will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow so arbitrary arbi-trary are these transient laws. Dumas. There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted. Bovee. The despotism of custom is on the wan. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be. John Stuart Mill." M |