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'Een levende cultuur voedt de traditie door haar voort te zetten.' Ik had de indruk dat ik dat maar het beste kon beamen. 'Categorische afwijzing van de traditie is een crisisverschijnsel', zei ik. 'Heb je het koud? Kom maar weer hier met je hand.'

'There was precisely nothing in him, neither villainy nor goodness, and something frightful showed itself in this absence of everything.'

“He was leaning against the ledge of an open lattice, but not looking out: his face was turned to the interior gloom. The fire had smouldered to ashes; the room was filled with the damp, mild air of the cloudy evening; and so still, that not only the murmur of the beck down Gimmerton was distinguishable, but its ripples and its gurgling over the pebbles, or through the large stones which it could not cover."