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An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

Thomas Jefferson
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No legacy is so rich as honesty.

William Shakespeare
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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his. -William Shakespeare
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Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

William Shakespeare
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I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

William Shakespeare
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Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people. -Kin Hubbard
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Samuel Butler
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Every one of us lives his life just once; if we are honest, to live once is enough.

Greta Garbo
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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? -Cicero
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Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

Stephen Vincent Benet
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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

Don Marquis
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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. -Arthur C. Clarke
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Every act of dishonesty has at least two victims: the one we think of as the victim, and the perpetrator as well. Each little dishonesty makes another little rotten spot somewhere in the perpetrator's psyche.

Lesley Conger
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Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

Margaret Fuller
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Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time. -Sam Rayburn
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.

Thomas Sowell
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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson
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I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul. -Mary Ellen Mark
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.

Waylon Jennings
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The honester the man, the worse luck.

John Ray
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When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate. -Pamela Ribon
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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, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Brigham Young
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Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. -Walter Anderson
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Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.

Lemuel K. Washburn
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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

Mark Twain
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When in doubt, tell the truth. -Mark Twain
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If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain
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A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isn't.

Don Williams, Jr
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In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution. -Wendell L. Willkie
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