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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man. ↗

— Sam Houston

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The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man. ↗

— Sonny Bono

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

— Thomas Carlyle

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Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman. ↗

— James F. Cooper

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God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place. ↗

— Francis Walsingham

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The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

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