By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle left.

I've never really learned how to live and I've discovered too late that life is for living.

By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle left.

He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy.