It is good to take the safest and wariest way in general.

一般来说选择最安全最谨慎的途径为好。

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For where a man cannot choose, or vary in particulars, there it is good to take the safest and wariest way in general;

因为一个人在不能随机应变有所选择的时候，自以取那一般地最安全最谨慎的途径为佳；

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The chances were that those wariest of the idea, such as Britain, would let it happen provided that the inner core would, at any rate in theory, remain open to latecomers.

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