Sacrificed to Expediency

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I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. – W.C. Fields

You can’t learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. – W. Somerset Maughm

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. – Mark Twain

I like persons better than principle and I like persons with no princibles better than anything at all. – Oscar Wilde.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. – Samuel Butler

Progress celebrates Pyrrhic victories over nature and makes purses out of human skin. – Karl Kraus