#honest

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. ↗

#achieve #any #good #good judgment #honestly

Our supporters can send the message that it's wrong for politically connected corporations to make millions while people doing an honest day's work are being cheated out of an honest day's pay. ↗

— Morris Dees

#cheated #connected #corporations #day #doing

I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened. ↗

— Ted Demme

#accomplish #another #being #being honest #bend

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s. ↗

— William Blake

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The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#before #both #broken #charges #common

Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it. ↗

— Ray Blanton

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I just wanted to win on the road, honestly. I don't remember the road ever being this tough. ↗

— Tim Duncan

#ever #honestly #i #just #remember

Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are. ↗

— Patricia Velasquez

#hard #honest #proud #who #work

I have always been honest about my recollection of events. ↗