Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools
Обычай (т. е. соблюдение условностей) - наказание для умных и предмет поклонения для дураков.
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- Live and learn
- A fool's tongue runs before his wit
- He is a fool that forgets himself
- Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other
- Every man has his hobby-horse
- Money often unmakes the men who make it
- Blind men can judge no colours
- He goes long barefoot that waits for dead man's shoes
- If my aunt had been a man, she'd have been my uncle
- To be head over ears in debt
- Judge not of men and things at first sight
- Every man is the architect of his own fortunes
- Let every man praise the bridge he goes over
- No living man all things can
- A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will