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Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

Ovid

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Ovid
Author
Elegist
Mythographer
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Writer
Publius Ovidius Naso
P. Ovidius Naso
Power
Nothing
Custom
Customs
Habit
Powerful

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Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]
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