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pinching you or call it names
Tradition, our own tradition, pinches us; but you cannot punch tradition for pinching you, or call it names to its face, especially if it proves to be your father's tradition, or your next-door neighbor's.
— from Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism [First Series] by Henry Seidel Canby

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