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REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide. — Ambrose Bierce

I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock. — Oscar Wilde

Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed. — Seneca The Younger

Flooding damage is not customary for New York, especially downstate. — Andrew Cuomo

You wish for what's called wooing. This customary game, where the man shows the woman that resistance is impractical, strikes me as quite pointless. — Tara West

Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters. — John Stuart Mill

Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary. — Eli Siegel

Essentially, the mercenary sets morality aside, or at best reorders the customary structures to fit the needs of his way of life. The — Glen Cook

All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues. — Chuck Berry

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. — Thomas Henry Huxley

Once, as he inhaled with his customary vehemence, I had a thought that made my armpits come alive. — Martin Amis

Large and excellent joints, the delicacies and cleanliness customary in Italy were wanting — Alison Weir

Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Eating together as always: Lily chattering away, Mother and Father making their customary — Lois Lowry

I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition. — Katharine Hepburn

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us. — Plautus

Once a person has become detached from his possessions, his customary duties, his moments of solitude, where is he? What is he? — Patricia Highsmith

You're very welcome, Nina Zenik. You may repay me in the customary way." "Waffles?" "Lots of them. — Leigh Bardugo

Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers. — William Shakespeare

In Asia, it's customary to get together with your entire extended family on a regular basis, and it's all rife with politics. — Kevin Kwan

I know that there's a customary cliche about librarians being what crass people might call "hard-asses". — Leah Thomas

It is not customary to love what one has — Anatole France

Majority Patriotism is the customary Patriotism. — Mark Twain

Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby? — Thurgood Marshall

There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained. — Suzanne La Follette

Well as, one judge said to the other, 'Be just and if you can't be just be arbitrary.' Regret cannot observe customary obscenities. — William S. Burroughs

Do not act following customary beliefs. — Miyamoto Musashi

Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege. — Truman Capote

The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one. — Henry James Sumner Maine

In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers. — Ian Peebles

What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones. — Jean Dubuffet

I always return to Paris, taking my selves along - past self, customary self, the self I never had. — Helen Bevington

Dr. Barlow, it is, of course, customary to check with the caption before, uh, giving away his ship.
-Deryn Sharp — Scott Westerfeld

The diplomats were at their customary business of making the world safe for new wars. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I had a passion to not be a secretary forever. I was mindful of the customary career trajectory, and I knew I had to do something remarkable. — Stacey Snider

Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover. — Diane Setterfield

For capitalism to develop, customary ties between people and the land must be severed, and communal obligations among people disrupted. — David McNally

Socialistic practices are now so ingrained in our thinking, so customary, so much a part of our mores, that we take them for granted. — Leonard Read

It's customary when great events happen that the U.S. punishes its friends and rewards its enemies. — Ahmed Chalabi

It offended him both as a lawyer and as a lover of the sane and customary sides of life, to whom the fanciful was the immodest. — Robert Louis Stevenson

This is about objects, not motifs. The photo is only a substitute for an object; it is unsuitable as a picture in its customary sense. — Bernd Becher

It is necessary to understand that war is common, strife is customary, and all things happen because of strife and necessity. — Heraclitus

People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Yes, after all, this by now was his customary loneliness: there was little else he desired for the present than the hospitality of the dark. — Walter De La Mare