He wasn't -- but I find so delightfully English -- only an Englishman can understand the full occasion-utterer's meaning of the phrase, that I care to quote from Chapman's caring to quote from Grice:
She is quoting from the published "Happiness" paper in Grice 2001:
"Otherwise it would, uncomfortably, be impossible
to choose between the routes to happiness selected
'by a hermit,
by a monomaniacal stamp-collector,
by an unwavering egotist,
and by a well-balanced kindly country gentleman'"
(Chapman, p. 149).
I guess Scruton _can't_!
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