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The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man. ↗

— Sonny Bono

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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

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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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God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— William Hazlitt

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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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