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“Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.”
“Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.”
“Habit is the nursery of errors.”
“Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.”
“A precedent embalms a principle.”
“Contemporary man has rationalized the myths but he has not been able to destroy them.”
“Custom is second nature and no less powerful.”
“Custom reconciles us to everything.”
“Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without som...”
“Habit is a great deadener.”
“Habit is habit and not to be thrown out of the window by any man but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.”
“Have a place for everything and keep the things somewheres else. That is not advice it is merely custom.”
“He who does anything because it is the custom makes no choice.”
“In some remote regions of Islam it is said a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face.”
“Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of custom: but of all these perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous by simple repetition ceases to be miraculous.”
“It is well to lie fallow for a while.”
“She always says she dislikes the abnormal it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.”
“The despotism of custom is everywhere standing up to human advancement.”
“The way of the world is to praise dead saints and persecute living ones.”
“There is nothing sacred about convention there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of...”
