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Habit and custom may be the wisdom of unlettered men, but they come from the sound ancient heart of humanity.

The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot · 1953

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Kirk, Russell. The Conservative Mind. Henry Regnery Company, 1953, ch. 2, sect. 4.

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