"Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just."
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"Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest."
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"There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth"
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"If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees."
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"I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have to be passed through a powerful press first, to squeeze their old notions out of them, so that they would not soon get upon their legs again."
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"A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than the world demands or can appreciate."
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"The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us."
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"Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!"
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"The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions."
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"One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation."
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"You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!"
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"Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain."
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"All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it."
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"Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick."
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"....honest men are few when it comes to themselves."
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"Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it."
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"No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God."
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"Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else."
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"I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison."
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"Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is."
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