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— Irene Nemirovsky"What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork."
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Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.
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This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.
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