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Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf ;is better than a whole loaf. – G. K. Chesterton

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Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbacks from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes. – Zelda Fitzgerald

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What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. – Bliss Carman

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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile — hoping it will eat him last. – Sir Winston Churchill

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It is the weak man who urges compromise — never the strong man. – Elbert Hubbard

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