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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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Women love an honest man. ↗

— Rita Ora

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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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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing. ↗

— Owen D. Young

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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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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If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

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