"There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse."

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I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what is to be done in given circumstances and does it. He does not beat about the bush for difficulties or excuses, but goes the shortest and most effectual way to work to attain his own ends, or to accomplish a useful object.

— William Hazlitt