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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A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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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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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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Why cant somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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