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• Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

  George Burns

  Funny, Success, Fake People

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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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• 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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• People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

  Richard J. Needham

  Honesty, People, Satisfaction

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• Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

  "Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think".

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• Respect for the Truth is an acquired taste.

  Mark Van Doren

  Truth, Honesty, Taste

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• Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Truth, Honesty

  "The Critic as Artist". Book by Oscar Wilde, 1891.

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• Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Truth, Children, Lying

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• Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.

  Josh Billings

  Honesty, Ethics, Wealth

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• You can't handle the truth!

  Jack Nicholson

  Movie, Memorable, Great Year

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• Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

  Franz Kafka

  Hate, Obsession, Intense

  Franz Kafka (1995). “The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories”, Random House LLC

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• To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

  Douglas Adams

  Leadership, Money, Educational

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• The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

  John Stuart Mill

  Truth, Honesty, Men

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.172, Hackett Publishing

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• The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

  Abu Bakr

  Honesty, Truth Is, Caliphs

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• Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

  George Herbert

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

  Jeremy Taylor, John Wheeldon, George Herbert (1768). “Sacred Prolusions: Or, Select Pieces from Bishop Taylor and Mr. Herbert. By the Rev. John Wheeldon, ... With a Preface and a Discourse on Rev.xviii. 21. By the Editor”, p.98

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

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Trust, Children

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• You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

  Aldous Huxley

  Funny, Bible, Jesus

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• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Being Yourself

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

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• Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Literature, Valuable

  Following the Equator ch. 7, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897) See Edmund Burke 25

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• Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

  Robert Breault

  Positive, Truth, Honesty

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• Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.485, Courier Corporation

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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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• The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Truth, Honesty, Contrary

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• Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Inspiration, Prevailing

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.27, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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