"I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years."

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"I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years."

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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 the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about."

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