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«I say it to thee again, and doubt never the contrary, that if it were the custom to put the little maidens to the school, and they were made to learn the sciences as they do to the men-children, that they should learn as perfectly, and they should be»
Author: Christine de Pisan
| Keywords:
contrary, custom, Maidens, sciences, The school, the sciences
«Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.»
Author: Marcus Garvey
| Keywords:
custom, design, Let It Be, look into, method, practicable, significant
«It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.»
«For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Happiness,
Morality
| Keywords:
custom, decried, decry, degraded, earnest, moralist, moralists, Two thousand, unworthy
«I do not mean to suggest for a moment that all it takes to be a top executive is a custom-tailored European suit. You also need the correct shirt and tie.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
custom, European, executive, shirt, suggest, suit, tailor, tailored, tailoring, The Europeans, The Tailor, tie, top executive
«Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.»
«Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
custom, customs, escaped, evaded, evading, laws and customs, openly, transgressed, transgressing
«It is a custom. More honored in the breach than the observance.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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breach, breached, custom, honored, observance, observances
«I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Courtesy
| Keywords:
courtesy, custom, entertainment, some other
«Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.»
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