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“I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful. I despised sophisters and calculators; I was groping for faith, honor, and prescriptive loyalties. I would have given any number of neo-classical pediments for one poor battered gargoyle.”
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“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
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“We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.”
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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 about.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
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