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Honesty is something you can't wear out. ↗

— Waylon Jennings

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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence. ↗

— Lemuel K. Washburn

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Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not. ↗

— Dean Inge

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I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty. ↗

— Summer Altice

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Honesty is the best policy. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

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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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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. ↗

— Don Marquis

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Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

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