#honesty

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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I like honesty and fair play. ↗

— Marcus Garvey

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What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men. ↗

— Vanessa Marcil

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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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A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself. ↗

— Jose Marti

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As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate. ↗

— John McCain

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Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

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Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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