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Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man. ↗

— Richard Whately

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing. ↗

— William Wordsworth

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An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country. ↗

— Henry Wotton

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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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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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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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My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question. ↗

— David Ogden Stiers

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An honest man is always a child. ↗

— Socrates

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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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I want to be an honest man and a good writer. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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