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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.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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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. — Joseph Wood Krutch

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Joseph Wood Krutch was a Environmentalist from United States (1893–1970).

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Joseph Wood Krutch lived from 1893 – 1970.
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