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Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding · 1748

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Custom and convention

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1748 Age of Enlightenment

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Hume, David. "Sceptical Solution of These Doubts." An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, edited by Tom L. Beauchamp. Oxford University Press, 2000, sect. 5, pt. 1, para. 6.

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Hume, David. "Sceptical Solution of These Doubts (In Two Parts)." An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. London: A. Millar, 1748, sect. 5, pt. 1, para. 6.

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