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The best policy is to declare victory and leave. ↗

— George D. Aiken

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You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me. ↗

— Eminem

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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. ↗

— Mark Twain

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

— Dean Inge

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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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It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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