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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
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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 that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
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The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.
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