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• I prefer to believe that people are good and honest and respect me enough to tell me the truth. It's not easy to find those people all the time, but they're out there.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Believe, People, Easy

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• A blessed thing it is to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults; who will speak the honest truth to us, while the world flatters us to our face, and laughs at us behind our back; who will give us counsel and reproof in a day of prosperity and self-conceit; but who, again, will comfort and encourage us in days of difficulty and sorrow, when the world leaves us alone to fight our own battle as we can.

  Charles Kingsley

  Blessed, Fighting, Self

  Charles Kingsley (1881). “The Works of Charles Kingsley”

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• However a man who was honest and clever was always, ALWAYS more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and clever. Sincerity. It was so difficult , by definition, to fake.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Clever, Men, Fake

  Brandon Sanderson (2012). “The Emperor's Soul”, p.77, Tachyon Publications

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• I haven’t changed my mind. That’s the point! I want to spend my life with you even though it’s totally irrational. And you have short earlobes. Socially and genetically there’s no reason for me to be attracted to you. The only logical conclusion is that I must be in love with you.

  Graeme Simsion

  Love, Mind, Want

  Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

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• "No," Preston snapped. But he didn't protest long because, if I'm going to be honest - which is kind of the point of these reports - I was already unzipping his pants.

  Ally Carter

  Long, Pants, Kind

  "United We Spy". Book by Ally Carter, September 5, 2013.

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• An honest kiss, a little kindness, everyone deserves that much, however big or small.

  George R. R. Martin

  Kindness, Kissing, Littles

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.613, Bantam

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• I would love to say how nice it is to see you again, but that would be a lie. And I am nothing if not honest.

  Kami Garcia

  Nice, Lying, Would Be

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• And he’s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite, intelligent but vain; the Amity, peaceful but passive; the Candor, honest but inconsiderate; the Abnegation, selfless but stifling.

  Veronica Roth

  Intelligent, Brave, Peaceful

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• Freedom is for everyone, whatever lifestyle they choose, as long as it's peaceful and honest

  Russell Means

  Freedom, Long, Peaceful

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• People want honest, flavourful food, not some show-off meal that takes days to prepare.

  Ted Allen

  Food, People, Meals

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• I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Humor, Good Luck, Hard Work

  Henry Ward Beecher (1850). “Industry and idleness: with causes of dishonesty : to which are appended six warnings”, p.23

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• Freedom of press and freedom of speech: What a blessing for a country while in the hands of honest, patriotic men; what a curse if in the hands of designing demagogues.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Country, Freedom, Patriotic

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• Honest history is the weapon of freedom.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  History, Weapons

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• Weapons may be carried by creatures who are evil, dishonest, violent or lazy. The true warrior is good, gentle and honest. His bravery comes from within himself; he learns to conquer his own fears and misdeeds. —Matthias

  Brian Jacques

  Warrior, Evil, Bravery

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• It is far more honest to be undeservedly ignored than to be honoured without merit.

  Denis Fonvizin

  Freedom, Democracy, Merit

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• Being honest doesn't mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.

  Veronica Roth

  Mean, Want, You Choose

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• Magnus had a list of favored traits in a partner-black hair, blue eyes, honest.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Hair, Blue

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “What Really Happened in Peru”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• I know now that when the loving, honest moment comes it should be seized, and spoken, because it may never come again. And unvoiced, unmoving, unlived in the things we declare form heart to heart, those true and real feelings wither and crumble in the remembering hand that tries too late to reach for them.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Real, Heart, Hands

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.773, St. Martin's Press

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• I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

  Mark Twain

  Witty, Men, Shining

  "Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations".

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• I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horrors of sordid passion, and - if he is lucky enough - know the love of an honest woman.

  Robert Graves

  Believe, Passion, Poetry

  Lecture at Oxford. Time, December 15, 1961.

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  He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

  Thomas Paine

  Truth, Political, Dare

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.123, Rowman & Littlefield

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• We respect the dignity and the rights of every man and every nation. The path to a brighter future of the world leads through honest reconciliation of the conflicting interests and not through hatred and bloodshed. To follow that path means to enhance the moral power of the all-embracing idea of human solidarity.

  Lech Walesa

  Respect, Future, Mean

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• An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

  Simon Cameron

  Honesty, Political Will, Definitions

  Attributed in "Chronicles of America Series" by Allen Johnson, Yale University Press, 1918.

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• To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Honesty, Kindness

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “A Christmas Sermon”, p.5, Xist Publishing

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• I have heard about the civilized,
  the marriages run on
  talk, elegant and
  honest, rational.
  But and I are savages.

  Sharon Olds

  I Love You, Running, Savages

  Sharon Olds, “Primitive”

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