Immemorial custom is transcendent law.—Menu.
In this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and gross sense.—Emerson.
Custom doth make dotards of us all.—Carlyle.
Cynics.—It will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.—Dickens.
Cynicism is old at twenty.—Bulwer-Lytton.
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Dandy.—A dandy is a clothes-wearing man,—a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person, and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object,—the wearing of clothes wisely and well; so that as others dress to live, he lives to dress.—Carlyle.
A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.—Rivarol.
Danger.—It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea, and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.—Colton.
Death.—It is not death, it is dying, that alarms me.—Montaigne.