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Noun: the ways of the world
  1. The manner in which people typically behave or things typically happen
    "she was well-versed in the ways of the world before she had taken the veil"; "he was amazingly innocent of the ways of the world";
    - the way of the world

Type of: behavior [US], behaviour [Brit, Cdn], conduct, doings