"Every human being grows up inside a sheath of custom, which enfolds it as the swathing clothes enfold the infant."
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"Custom," Civilization Its Cause And Cure And Other Essays (1889) p. 148
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Edward Carpenter
1864 – 1933
Edward Carpenter (29 August 1844 – 28 June 1929) was an English socialist poet, socialist philosopher.
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