“Apollo said that every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.”

— Michel De Montaigne , book Essays

Book II, Ch. 12. Apology for Raimond Sebond
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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