Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he canโt play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWhat affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.
Gilbert K. Chesterton