This may be one of the most interesting one-liners ever from Charlotte Mason!
"Loyalty is to be expected of him who is not true to himself." ~~ Ourselves
Update: See comments, Phyllis added a text correction. It turns out all the words are there, but a stray period changed the meaning of the online text. Am I disappointed that CM wasn't being quite so ironic? No, I think she did say more or less the same thing elsewhere.
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I couldn't quite understand this one, so I went digging. There's a typo there that changes the whole meaning! In the PDF of the book it says, "He is true to himself who is true to these; and no other Loyalty is to be expected of him who is not true to himself."
Hmm, so that wasn't the original wording? Very good to know. Thanks, Phyllis.
I read it (as I had it) as meaning that loyalty to the cause outside oneself should trump self-interest.
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