Source: 1940s-1950s, Administrative Behavior, 1947, p. xxix.
“One of the best maxims in determining our course in life is, to select, at the outset, that in which virtue and principle will be least likely to be put to a test, and in which, from the nature of the calling, a man may bring around him such associations and influences as will be an auxiliary in keeping him in the path of virtue.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 437.
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