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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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In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

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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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