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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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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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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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