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And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief. ↗

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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 real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

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An honest man is always a child. ↗

— Socrates

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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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I want to be an honest man and a good writer. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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Because I never thought the Lord would treat me any different from any other honest man or that I had an official position that compelled the Lord to help me in any other way than He would help any other man. ↗

— John Harvey Kellogg

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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing. ↗

— Owen D. Young

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He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. ↗

— George Berkeley

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Necessity makes an honest man a knave. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

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Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for. ↗