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Similarly a pilot will desire
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to bring his ship safe to harbour; but if he is swept
out of his course by a storm, he will not for that
reason cease to be a pilot, but will say in the wellknown words of the old poet1 “Still let me steer
straight on!”
1 Ennius, Ann. 483 (Vahlen).
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