But what he does say is that such ethical life as existed was in the main a thing of custom and law: of law, moreover, which was not set objectively forward, but left still in the stage of Uncontradicted usage, a custom which was a second nature, part of the essential and quasi-physical ordinance of life.
"Hegel’s Philosophy of Mind"
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I therefore carefully avoided wounding his few gray hairs and latter days, and left him still untold that it was by her, of whom he thought so highly, that his Uncontradicted treachery had been discovered.
"The Secret Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, Complete"
Madame du Hausset, an "Unknown English Girl" and the Princess Lamballe
Men are so built that Uncontradicted falsehood sufficiently repeated does have that curious power of illusion.
"The Free Press"
Hilaire Belloc