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Letter "C" » customs
«It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs. Those humble, everyday things a mother clings to, and ponders, like Mary in the secret spaces of her heart»
Author: Marjorie Holmes
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clings, customs, every year, Mary, Mary I, pondered, pondering, ponders, spaces
«I don't like people who take drugs... Customs men for example.»
«If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home»
«Ill Customs & bad Advice are seldom forgotten.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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customs, forgotten, ill
«I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?»
«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)
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custom, customs, escaped, evaded, evading, laws and customs, openly, transgressed, transgressing
«May princes know then that they begin to lose (their) state at that hour in which they begin to break the laws and those customs and usages that are ancient and under which men have lived for a long time»
«I know you have been critically looking at the mores and customs of the past and questioning their value. Every generation does that. But don't discard the time-tested values upon which civilization has been built just because they are old.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
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critically, customs, discard, mores, questioning, tested, time-tested
«Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
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altogether, connection, custom, customs, fatal, incalculable, tradition, Traditions, weather
«New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let 'em be unmanly) yet are follow'd»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
customs, nay, ridiculous, unmanly
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