Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

About Dalton Camp

Dalton Kingsley Camp (September 11, 1920 – March 18, 2002) was a Canadian journalist, politician, political strategist and commentator, and supporter of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Although he was never elected to a seat in the Canadian House of Commons, he was a prominent and influential politician and...

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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on—have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear—what remains? Nature remains.

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