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Let us once lose our oaths to find ourselves,
Or else we lose ourselves to keep our oaths.
-- William Shakespeare. Love's Labour's Lost (1598) Berowne, Act p4, Scene 3.
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By being all things to all spies, one does rather run the risk of becoming nothing to oneself," he confessed sadly. "Please don't ever imagine you'll be unscathed by the methods you use. The end may justify the means -- if it wasn't supposed to, I dare say you wouldn't be here. But there's a price to pay, and the price does tend to be oneself. Easy to sell ones soul at your age. Harder later."
-- John le Carré. The Secret Pilgrim. (novel, 1990), Chapter 1.
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