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«Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable»
«Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
atrocities, atrocity, custom, reconcile, reconciles, reconciling
«Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.»
Author: Hermann Hesse
(Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Age,
Beauty,
Cruelty,
Culture,
Custom,
Education,
Strength,
Traditions,
Weakness
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accepts, beauties, cruelties, cultures, custom, human culture, it accepts, overlap, overlapping, patiently, Real Character, reduced, sufferings, tradition, Two Cultures
«Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.»
«A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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ceases, centuries, custom, laws and customs, persevered, supersede, superseded, supersedes
«A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it the superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Habit,
Thinking
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appearance, at first, converts, custom, defense, first appearance, formidable, outcry, raises, subside, subsides, subsiding, superficial, tumult, tumults
«Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness.»
«Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety, other women cloy»
«But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom more honored in the breach than the observance»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
breach, breached, custom, honored, native, observance, observances
«Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.»
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