Tradition is a prison with majority opinion the modern jail… - Henry S. Haskins

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Tradition is a prison with majority opinion the modern jailer.

Henry S. Haskins

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About Henry S. Haskins

Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957) was a stockbroker and man of letters. His aphorisms were edited and published anonymously with an introduction by Albert Jay Nock in 1940.

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There never is any diminution of the vast majority, indifferent to what they are, whence they came, and whither they go, who rush from business to pastime, and from pastime back to business, leaving no vacancy into which the unknown might slip a little experimental greatness.

Many of us are impersonations of what we know we ought to be.

There is not an ounce of our former strength which is not doing some sort of job, right now.

Tradition is a prison with majority opinion the modern jailer. - Henry S. Haskins

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