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 the small and arrogant oligarchy
of those who merely happen to be walking around.
~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Tradition
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The ‘small and arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.’?
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Do you mean the ‘small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.’?
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Not true in Victoria! The council there has no regard for tradition!
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