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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
No man who worships education has got the best out of education.. Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Journalism largely consists of saying Lord Jones is Dead to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
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What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule.
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When everything about a people is for the time growing weak and ineffective, it begins to talk about efficiency. So it is that when a man's body is a wreck he begins, for the first time, to talk about health. Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.
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