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“Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.” Confucius, Analects
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, First Inaugural Address
“Prosperity is the best protector of principle.” Mark Twain, Following the Equator
“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“When man was being made, the Creator was a schoolmaster—His bag full of commandments and principles; but when He came to woman, He resigned His headmastership and turned artist, with only His brush and paint-box.” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze.” Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
“Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

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