Every one as they like best, as the good man said when he kissed his cow.
Meaning: Absurd personal preferences deserve no justification—everyone pursues their own oddities without needing rational explanation.
Origin: Recorded in A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, an undated collection published in London by Whittaker & Co. around 1880 and credited to Thomas Preston. Its earlier history hasn't been traced.
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