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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
Honesty
Ovid

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Men are gentle, honest and straightforward. Women are convoluted, deceptive and dangerous.
Men and Women
Erin Pizzey

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
Honesty
Plato

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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Honesty
Alexander Pope

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The first step toward greatness is to be honest.
Greatness
Proverb

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No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
Honesty
Sir Walter Raleigh

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
Arts and Artists
Laura Riding

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I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
Reality
Jean Rostand

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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
Honesty
John Ruskin

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No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.
Animals
Bertrand Russell

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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
Honesty
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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A thread will tie an honest man better than a chain a rogue.
Honesty
Scottish Proverb

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Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.
Honesty
William Shakespeare

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No legacy is so rich as honestly.
Inheritance
William Shakespeare

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Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
Honesty
William Shakespeare

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Why should honor outlive honestly? [Orthello]
Honor
William Shakespeare

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You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
Writers and Writing
George Bernard Shaw

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The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
Credulity
Sir Philip Sidney

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Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Accuracy
Charles Simmons

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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Politicians and Politics
Socrates

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The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
Writers and Writing
John Steinbeck

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It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
Quotations
Tom Stoppard

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Faith lives in honest doubt.
Faith
Lord Alfred Tennyson

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There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Doubt
Lord Alfred Tennyson

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Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
Appearance
Mark Twain

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