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Custom is second nature.
↗Meaning: Repeated practice can become so familiar that it feels natural. Second nature describes that acquired ease, without proving that a habit is good, unchangeable or shared by everyone.
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Customs.
Examining shared conventions and the expectations created by established practices. These editorial selections consider adaptation, precedent and justified change; familiarity alone does not make a convention fair or binding. Connections follow agent-reviewed meanings, rather than source word matching. Reviewed editorial meanings may also connect entries to this topic; those assignments are labelled separately from word matching.
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Once a use and ever a custom.
↗Meaning: Doing something once can create an expectation that it will continue. The saying warns about a precedent becoming customary, without proving that a single occasion permanently binds anyone to repeat it.
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Custom makes anything easy.
↗Meaning: Familiarity and repetition can make an activity easier to manage. The word anything exaggerates that benefit, without proving that practice removes every difficulty or that lack of ease shows insufficient effort.
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A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept.
↗Meaning: A harmful habit or convention deserves to be broken rather than preserved. The joke compares breaking a custom with cutting into a good cake, challenging the idea that keeping something intact is always a virtue.
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When you are at Rome, do as Rome does.
↗Meaning: When entering an unfamiliar place or group, learn its ordinary customs and adapt where appropriate. Respectful participation often begins with noticing how others do things.
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There is no chapel so small but has its saint.
↗Meaning: A small institution or gathering can still have someone it honours. Size does not determine whether a community has its own attachments, loyalties or valued figure.
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Fools invent fashions and wise men follow them.
↗Meaning: Even people considered wise may follow a fashion they did not examine. The contrast questions imitation based on acceptance, without proving that every novelty or popular choice is foolish.