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• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Cheating, Funny Inspirational

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.43, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.

  Kapil Dev

  Running, Honesty, Believe

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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 seems to be true. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

  Robert E. Lee

  Honesty, Real, Men

  "Memoirs of Robert E. Lee". Book by A. L. Long, 1886.

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• Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

  Don Marquis

  Honesty, Good Things, Profitable

  archys life of mehitabel (1933) "archygrams"

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• Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

  Walter Anderson

  Change, Happiness, Success

  Walter Anderson (1988). “The Greatest Risk of All”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You know, women are acting the way they want to act now. Years ago they would hide it in the way they dressed, the way they speak, even the way they act in bed. Today, they're doing the same thing, but they're dressing the way they want to be treated and, when you're with them, acting the way they want to act. And you know, honesty is the best policy. I love that.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Honesty, Years, Acting

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Honesty, Memories

  Mark Twain, Classics HD (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: by Mark Twain (Illustrated and Unabridged)”, p.2, Classics HD

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• Honesty is the best policy in international relations, interpersonal relations, labor, business, education, family and crime control because truth is the only thing that works and the only foundation on which lasting relations can build.

  Ramsey Clark

  Honesty, Foundation, Business Education

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• A few honest men are better than numbers.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Education, Truth, Honesty

  Letter to Sir William Spring, September 1643, in Thomas Carlyle 'Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches' (2nd ed., 1846)

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• Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

  Robert Burns

  Honesty, Ethics, Being Honest

  Robert Burns, James Currie, Robert Hartley Cromek (1839). “The prose works of Robert Burns: with the notes of Currie and Cromek, and many by the present editor”, p.57

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• Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

  Kin Hubbard

  Truth, Honesty, People

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• It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony in a court of law. Honesty is a vital part of having a good reputation.

  Jim Rohn

  Honesty, Lying, Law

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jun 20, 2012

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• It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

  Noel Coward

  Honesty, Lying, People

  Noel Coward (1979). “Plays, four”, Methuen Drama

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• Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Honesty, Men, World

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• If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

  Jesse Ventura

  Inspirational, Memories, Truth

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• A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Funny, Fake People

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 53

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• Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Success, Fake People, Truth

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• Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.

  James A. Garfield

  Honesty, People, Principles

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• To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

  John Ruskin

  Trust, Children, Truth

  John Ruskin (1868). “Time and Tide, by Weare and Tyne. Twenty-five letters to a Working Man of Sunderland (Thomas Dixon) on the laws of work ... Second edition”, p.37

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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

  Funny, Truth, Liars

  The Idler Feb. 1892, p. 118

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• And what is true education? It is awakening a love for truth; giving a just sense of duty; opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life. It is not so much giving words, as thoughts; or mere maxims, as living principles. It is not teaching to be honest, because 'honesty is the best policy'; but because it is right. It is teaching the individual to love the good, for the sake of the good; to be virtuous in action because one is so in heart; to love and serve God supremely, not from fear, but from delight in his perfect character.

  David O. McKay

  Honesty, Teaching, Heart

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• Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

  Josh Billings

  Wisdom, Truth, Honesty

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• Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

  Richard Whately

  Truth, Honesty, Men

  'Apophthegms' p. 219

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• Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?

  C. S. Lewis

  Honesty, Men, Thinking

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• In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Honesty, Clean

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.11, RosettaBooks

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