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Russell Kirk
“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.”
Russell Kirk

Graham Greene
“She thought for the first time, with happiness: perhaps I have a life in people's minds when I am not there to be seen or talked to.”
Graham Greene, Orient Express

Evelyn Waugh
“More even than the work of the great architects, I loved buildings that grew silently with the centuries, catching and keeping the best of each generation, while time curbed the artist's pride and the Philistine's vulgarity, and repaired the clumsiness of the dull workman.”
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

Graham Greene
“‎His lips felt dry with a literal thirst for righteousness, which was like a glass of ice-cold water on a table in another man's room.”
Graham Greene, Orient Express

Herbert Butterfield
“History is not the study of origins; rather it is the analysis of all the mediations by which the past was turned into our present.”
Herbert Butterfield, The Whig Interpretation of History

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