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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes --

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

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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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In America nothing dies easier than tradition. – Russell Baker

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

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