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It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington. – Dorothy Day

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I felt theres a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. Id be a jerk not to take advantage of it. – Herman Wouk

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There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it. – Alexander Herzen

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Tradition

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes — our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around. – G. K. Chesterton

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It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. – Hilaire Belloc

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