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"Cultural values change with times, unless they are built on an absolute standard of values and virtues. This standard must be afterwards well-guarded and protected."
"I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys."
"Even when she had to make some one a present of the kind called 'useful,' when she had to give an armchair or some table-silver or a walking-stick, she would choose 'antiques,' as though their long desuetude had effaced from them any semblance of utility and fitted them rather to instruct us in the lives of the men of other days than to serve the common requirements of our own."
"There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair."
"I grew up in an atmosphere tinged with militarism, and afterwards I spent five boring years within the sound of bugles. To this day it gives me a faint feeling of sacrilege not to stand to attention during 'God save the King'. That is childish, of course, but I would sooner have had that kind of upbringing than be like the left-wing intellectuals who are so 'enlightened' that they cannot understand the most ordinary emotions."
"Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas."
"I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years."
"The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement."
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"True love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ..."
"Before you, life was desolate - the past hardly worth remembering - and now, each moment a keepsake I can't throw away ..."
"You betrayed me, but after all those years I discover, my tears have wiped the slate clean..."
"I looked in the window, wanting to stay - it rained, yet I remained...because you were so lovely..."
"You say you don't mistrust me, yet you quote Chrysostom - Hell is paved with priests' skulls...."
"If you don't regard your word as a sacred covenant, then there is nothing in you I can honor ..."
"You have changed everything for me- you rearranged the furniture and now you've changed the view from my window!..."
"I hardly ever see your profile, but have I told you it's beautiful? - like the soft gentle lines of snow..."
"The fragrance of pine resin is frankincense poured out-a balm of stars and snow and moonlit nights."
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