Gilbert K. Chesterton said this quote

“ 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 that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. ”

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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

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A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

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