Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. - W. Somerset Maugham

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. – W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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 dead govern the living. – Auguste Comte

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