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William Shakespeare
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...the honour of a maid is her name; and
no legacy is so rich as honesty.
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Sir Walter Scott
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Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!
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Cicero
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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty
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William Shakespeare
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No legacy is so rich as honesty.
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F. M. Hubbard
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Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
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Merry Browne
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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
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Billie Joe
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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.
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Thomas Jefferson
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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
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William Shakespeare
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...the honour of a maid is her name; and
no legacy is so rich as honesty.
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Richard Needham
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The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.
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Mother Theresa
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Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.
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Lois McMaster Bujold
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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.
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Sir Walter Besant
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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
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Arthur C. Clarke
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The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
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Julius Henry Marx
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The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
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Luther Standing Bear
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Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.
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Stephen Vincent Benet
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Honesty rare as a man without self-pity, kinders as large and plain as a prairie wind.
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Hannah Nixon
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I am sure you will be guided right in your decision, to place implicit faith in his integrity and honesty. Best wishes from one who has known Richard longer than anyone else. His mother.
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J. Lawton Collins
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No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.
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Sallust
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They envy the distinction I have won let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
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Irving Layton
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Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy. (On President Richard M Nixon)
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George Carlin
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Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
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Eloise Salholz
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Living up to basic ethical standards in the classroom-discipline, tolerance, honesty-is one of the most important ways children learn how to function in society at large.
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Robert Green Ingersoll
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There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.
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David L Boren
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What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful It is the simple things that make the difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self-respect, and the courage of conviction.
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Henry Louis Mencken
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It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for any public office.
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Joseph Sugarman
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Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.
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Barry Schwartz
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Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality -- do whatever makes the most money.
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Henry Brougham
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It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence.
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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.
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Honesty is the best image.
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Honesty is being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.
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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
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Honesty is for the most part, less profitable than dishonesty.
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Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
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Honesty is probably the sexiest thing a man can give to a woman.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
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The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
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All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
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It was a grand trait of the old Roman that with him one and the same word meant both honor and honesty.
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We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
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If our actions stem from honesty, kindness, caring, and vision, then no matter what the result of our efforts, we have added something of value to our souls and to the world.
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You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and
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Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud.
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They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
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"If never keep profit a good smile honesty." -- Quark
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How frequently are the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or a shrug. How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped with the imputation of bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable w
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"I wasn't aware that my honesty was in question or doubt."
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"If you can fake honesty you've got it made." - Clinton
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"Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense"
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If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer
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"Thank you for the tea, Delenn, and your honesty." - G'Kar
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Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
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It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
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It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
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In all honesty, Johnny, we are often at the mercy of the White House for the news we report. Frequently, we simply repeat verbatim what the White House tells us.
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I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world.
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Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.
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Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence.
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