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 K. Chesterton

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Gilbert K. Chesterton: "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."

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Ancestors	Around	Arrogant	Classes
Dead	Democracy	Giving	Happen
Means	Merely	Most	Obscure
Oligarchy	Refuses	Small	Submit
Tradition	Votes	Walking

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