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

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


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Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

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