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“To live with someone who likes you, and whose judgement you respect, because you love them, does make quite a difference, I find.”

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Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.

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“So conceived, the English police force served to emphasize a fundamental truth about the English law, which is that it exists not to control…

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My 2018 ended with a hate storm, in response to my appointment as chair of the government's Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission.

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I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised.

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Unlike every other product that is now manufactured for the table, wine exists in as many varieties as there are people who produce it.…

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The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.

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“I think we can all see the force of the idea that there are certain things that cannot be done to human beings –…

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When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

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“Western democracies did not create the virtue of citizenship; on the contrary, they grew from it. Nothing is more evident in The Federalist than…

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“If one looks back to the French Revolution, one sees just how easy it is for the doctrine of “human rights” to become an…

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“I say it was immediately apparent, but it was not apparent to the intellectual class, which has remained largely wedded to the post-war consensus…

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Conservatives hold on to things not only because they are attached to them, but also because they do not see the sense in radical…

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