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“The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom.”
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- Source:
- Book i. Chap. xxii. Of Custom.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a4e6533b24c3a802cd6bb55a1adfcd957fbb980e687ef4b54fc2e14036ac6d76
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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