The evening’s the best part of the day. You’ve done your day’s work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.
Fiction is a way of telling the truth without being constrained by facts.
That “democracy” is a somewhat vague term which I cannot define precisely. We ought to say, therefore: “I am fairly certain that it is a good thing if a government has something of the characteristics that are common to the British and American Constitutions,” or something of this sort.