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Customer in a hurry at a garage: Don't bother with the petrol, just give me the stamps.
CUSTOMER: Well, can you hang around a couple of minutes?
He won't be long. MORTICIAN: Naaah, I got to go on to Robinson's -- they've lost nine today....
CUSTOMER: You're not fooling anyone y'know. Look, isn't there something you can do?
DEAD PERSON: I feel happy... I feel happy. [whop] CUSTOMER: Ah, thanks very much. MORTIC...
Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act v, Sc.
1...
Custom is almost a second nature.
-- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Rules for the Preservation of Health, 18...
Custom is the law of fools. -- Vanburgh
Custom reconciles us to everything. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- On the Sublime and Beautiful, Sect.
xviii, Vol. i, p. 231...
Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do.
Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them....
Custom will often blind one to the good as well as to the evil effects of any long established system.
-- Bishop Richard Whately...
Cut and come again. -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Tales, Tale vii, The Widow's Tale

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