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It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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