I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off ‘Thought for the Day’ when it comes on the radio.
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We, while noting many
We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.
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Everyone writes in Tolstoy’s
Everyone writes in Tolstoy’s shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.
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Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
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The death of any
The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.
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I had lost faith
I had lost faith in biography.
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The really clever people
The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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I was once naïve
I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.
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I suppose if I’d
I suppose if I’d got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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It would no doubt
It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue – but I would argue it nevertheless – that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music – both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing – is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.
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