• Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

  Joseph Wood Krutch
  American writer, critic, and naturalist
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. affectionate
2. traditional
3. impossible
4. ceremonies
5. without
6. loyalty

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Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies. by : Joseph Wood Krutch

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