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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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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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He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In America nothing dies easier than tradition. – Russell Baker

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Hell is paved with good Samaritans. – William M. Holden

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Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself. – Baltasar Gracian

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