a-long-habit.md (635B)
1 --- 2 attributed: false 3 date: '1776-02-14' 4 draft: false 5 lang: 'en' 6 misattributed: false 7 tags: ['Culture', 'Custom', 'Habit', 'Morality', 'Right', 'Wrong'] 8 title: '[A] long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom.' 9 unverified: false 10 --- 11 12 # *[A] long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom.* 13 — Thomas Paine, in Philadelphia, February 14, 1776 <cite><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9780143036258">Common Sense 14 </abbr></cite>.