It was Carey who taught her how to reach the top notes that were always one of the most unfailing and thrilling parts of her vocal armoury.
"Sufficient for the morning is the pleasure thereof," Woolf said in the last volume, "and one of the most unfailing pleasures is to sit down in the morning and write".
Michael Gove has drawn more than once on Winston Churchill's seminal speech naming the treatment of crime and criminals as "one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country".
Or as Shelley more elegantly put it, "the most unfailing herald, companion and follower of the awakening of a great people to work a beneficial change in opinion or institution, is poetry".
As Churchill once famously said, the "treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of a country… there is treasure if only you can find it in the heart of every person".
His words echo those of Shelley, written almost two centuries ago in his essay A Defence of Poetry, that "the most unfailing herald, companion, and follower of the awakening of a great people to work a beneficial change in opinion or institution, is poetry".
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilization of any country.
Perhaps he should have said, The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals -- and understanding who the real criminals are -- is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilization of any country.
