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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing. ↗

— William Wordsworth

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An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country. ↗

— Henry Wotton

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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man. ↗

— Sam Houston

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The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman. ↗

— James F. Cooper

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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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If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

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