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Quote by Benjamin Disraeli
A precedent embalms a principle. - Benjamin Disraeli

A precedent embalms a principle. – Benjamin Disraeli

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If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Benjamin Disraeli
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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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What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else? – Eric Hoffer

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Tradition

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

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To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form. – Alfred Jarry

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The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling. – H.G. Wells, The Outline of History, 1920

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I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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