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Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Honesty
Thomas Jefferson

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I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.
Money
Thomas Jefferson

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Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
Alliances
Thomas Jefferson

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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship, with all nationsentangling alliances with none.
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Thomas Jefferson

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Locks keep out only the honest.
Crime and Criminals
Jewish Proverb

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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Ambition
Samuel Johnson

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A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.
Inheritance
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.
Coward and Cowardice
George A. Knight

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Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.
Respectability
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
Honesty
Steve Landesberg

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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
Dishonesty
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
Politicians and Politics
Abraham Lincoln

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The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
Honesty
John Lyly

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Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.
Candor
George Macdonald

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Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?
Honesty
Sidney Madwed

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An honest man can never surrender an honest doubt.
Doubt
Walter Malone

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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
Honesty
Don Marquis

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There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked.
Honesty
Groucho Marx

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A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
Doctrine
Lord Melbourne

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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
Politicians and Politics
H. L. Mencken

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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Critics and Criticism
Henry Miller

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If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.
Honesty
Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau

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People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
Honesty
Richard J. Needham

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Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
Honesty
Thomas Otway

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A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
Honesty
Ovid

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun