Quote by Mark Twain
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. - Mark

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. – Mark Twain

Other quotes by Mark Twain

Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it. – Mark Twain

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Customs
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But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface. – Mark Twain

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Eating
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Conscience is, in most, an anticipation of the opinion of others. – Henry Taylor

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We judge ourselves by our best acts and most noble intentions, but we will be judged by our last worst act. – Michael Josephson, whatwillmatter.com

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If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul. – William Shakespeare

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Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right! – Isaac Asimov

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Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. – Benjamin Banneker

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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. – Charles Baudelaire

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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement. – Barack Obama

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But the cause for which we fought was higher our thought wider… That thought was our power. – Joshua Chamberlain

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