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Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.

Walter Savage Landor
Principles, Ethics, Morality
Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.215
Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.