"The choice of moves should not be made on an exact verdict of the final position, but on whether or not your position has improved or worsened."
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"Whatever is contrary, bonos mores est decorum, the principles of our law prohibit, and the King's Court, as the general censor and guardian of the public manners, is bound to restrain and punish."
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