Famous quotes containing the words custom and/or generation:
“How but in custom and in ceremony
Are innocence and beauty born?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Our Indian said that he was a doctor, and could tell me some medicinal use for every plant I could show him ... proving himself as good as his word. According to his account, he had acquired such knowledge in his youth from a wise old Indian with whom he associated, and he lamented that the present generation of Indians “had lost a great deal.””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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