It is increasingly clear, I'm afraid, that the Cabinet has become in Bagehot's phrase a dignified part of the constitution ...

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Once novels began to be published in blocks, rather than in slivers, they became art, perhaps in part because the author and the reader were held at a more dignified distance.

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But Koetsu ended his days in dignified security, as the quasi-religious head of a community at Takagamine, near Kyoto, part artists' colony and part monkish village.

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