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Anger cannot be dishonest.
Anger
George R. Bach

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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Age and Aging
Lucille Ball

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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
Dishonesty
George Bancroft

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
Business
Charles Baudelaire

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Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
Honesty
Stephen Vincent Benet

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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
Knowledge
Josh Billings

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Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.
Praise
Nicholas Boileau

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The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
Poverty and The Poor
Napoleon Bonaparte

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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
Honesty
Merry Browne

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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
Honesty
William Jennings Bryan

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You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.
Honesty
George Burns

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
Honesty
Robert Burns

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The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
Cries and Crying
Lord Byron

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
Politicians and Politics
W. J. Cameron

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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
Honesty
Thomas Carlyle

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Concentration is my motto -- first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
Concentration
Andrew Carnegie

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Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
Failure
Lord Chesterfield

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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
Poverty and The Poor
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Prefer a loss to dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.
Honesty
Chilo

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It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
Honesty
Winston Churchill

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Honor lies in honest toil.
Honor
Grover Cleveland

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A few honest men are better than numbers.
Honesty
Oliver Cromwell

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I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
Respectability
Rodney Dangerfield

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It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
Lies and Lying
Norman Douglas

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.
Work
Peter F. Drucker

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