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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
When a fellow says it hain't the money but the principle o' the thing, it's th' money.
When a fellow says it hain't the money but the principle o' the thing, it's th' money.
Important principles may and must be inflexible.
Important principles may and must be inflexible.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody,
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody,
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.