Time makes more converts than reason
Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; 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. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
Notes:
Thomas Paine on the habit we have of assuming something is correct because it has gone so long without being demonstrated as false.
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