[No. 447]Saturday, August 2, 1712Addison

There is not a Common Saying which has a better turn of Sense in it, than what we often hear in the Mouths of the Vulgar, that Custom is a second Nature. It is indeed able to form the Man anew, and to give him Inclinations and Capacities altogether different from those he was born with.

Dr.

Plot

, in his History of

Staffordshire

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