"It's better to have a pistol you don't want, than to want a pistol you've not got." The Secret People (1935)
Safe passage along the catwalk of one's own racial code must be achieved through long experience; it is harder still to climb from it to another, and when that other is as involved as a maze and is entirely supported by incomprehensible misconceptions, a foot is bound to slip through the fabric from time to time. The Secret People (1935)