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"What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right."
"The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are."
"The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home."
"Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one."
"I drank more wine when I wasn't working as much, to be honest."
"Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess."
"Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth."
"Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor."
"Public esteem is the recompense of honest men."
"There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being."
"What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming."
"I don't take myself terribly seriously. It's why I can be incredibly honest about my life."
"Honest work is much better than a mansion."
"The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man."
"America ... has ever had, and I trust she ever will have, my honest exertions to promote her interest. I cannot hope that my services have been the best; but my heart tells me they have been the best that I could render."
"Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live."
"Don't hide behind the Constitution or the Bible. If you're against gay marriage, just be honest, put a scarlet 'H' on your shirt, and say, 'I am a homophobe!'"
"Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!"
"If one is honest there is no need to remember."
"We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?"
