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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Scrupulousness

Generals are not to be too scrupulous.

Napoleon I.

Scrupulous people are not suited to great affairs.

Turgot.

No man, I fear, can effect great benefits for his country without some sacrifice of the minor virtues.

Sydney Smith.