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"Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant."

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The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice.

— Aeschylus

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So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.

— Henry David Thoreau

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