James Russell Lowell Quote: I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.

I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.

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Democracy give every man the right to be his own oppressor.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.

There are no uninteresting things, there are only uninterested people.

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.