• Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.

    William Makepeace Thackeray: Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.
    William Makepeace Thackeray (1871). “Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval and other stories”, p.4