Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap. (William Hazlitt)

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

William Hazlitt

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