You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.
Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
Virtue is its own punishment.
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.