#dishonest

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say. ↗

— Will Durant

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Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest. ↗

— Dario Fo

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Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

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

— Chilon

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My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that. ↗

— Vincent Gallo

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I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history. ↗

— Kate Mosse

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I never did anything dishonest. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

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The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result? ↗

— John Bates Clark

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There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives. ↗

— Todd Rundgren

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The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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