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It's difficult to know where to begin, sir.''Yes, the beginning is the tricky part. But perhaps ther...

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Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have b...

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Roger ScrutonThe Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope

I’m sorry that your mystical, godlike powers do not instantly work as you would like them to.

That I had come full circle shouldn't have surprised me, for we are born into time only to be born o...

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But does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest of us,...

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Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

Man has one name, and many more than two natures. But the essential two are these: that he shall str...

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