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  • Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on, it is a thousand times more difficult for knavery to get off; and no error is more fatal than that of those who think that Virtue has no other reward because they have heard that she is her own.

    Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”