"Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims."

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Source : Joyce Cary, Alan Bishop (1976). “Selected essays”, Michael Joseph

Joyce Cary

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“An officer should never speak ironically or sarcastically to an enlisted man, since the latter does not have a fair chance to answer back. The use of profanity and epithets comes under the same headings. The best argument for a man keeping his temper is that nobody else wants it; and when he voluntary throws it away, he loses a main prop to his own position.”
“I think constitutional and lawful protest has a very real value.”

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“That is truth. In that truth, there is real happiness. And there is nothing that could disturb that happiness.”
“Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's too hard? We seem to feel that they are capable of making arguments and coming to their own conclusions about Napoleon. Why not about triangles?”
“The most exciting thing in England is a pigeon or foxes, which isn't very interesting to watch because everyone knows what they do. But I've taken pictures of them. Just for practice.”

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“The Poles do not know how to hate, thank God.”
“I've noticed that the more adventurous and in that mode that I am, it seems that the more the audience really likes it.”
“Since being diagnosed, I have done a greater good for society in eight years, than in my 37 years on earth.”

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