Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
"A Song On the End of the World"
“The binding power of custom is its security of expectations. What has happened before may be expected to happen again, and he who arbitrarily disappoints expectations must be restrained or punished.”
Source: Legal foundations of capitalism. 1924, p. 301
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