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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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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
Honesty
Merry Browne

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

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For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.
Immortality
Bob Dylan

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Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.
Cynics and Cynicism
Nietzche Evil

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Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
Fools and Foolishness
Henry Fielding

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Honesty is the best policy.
Honesty
Benjamin Franklin

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Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Dishonesty
Kin Hubbard

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

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

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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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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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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
Honesty
Plato

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
Arts and Artists
Laura Riding

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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
Honesty
John Ruskin

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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
Honesty
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.
Honesty
William Shakespeare

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