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“Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.”
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- Thoughts. Chap. iv. 6.
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 7638f692e88cce5aeb3bc571d7a822f7d3880f1233235d70fd2dea5caddb5752
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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