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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

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There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

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It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail. ↗

— Rooney Mara

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The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way. ↗

— Jon Meacham

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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable. ↗

— Thomas More

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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other. ↗

— Petrarch

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To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title. ↗

— Albert Pike

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A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. ↗

— Pindar

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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. ↗

— Quintilian

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It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty. ↗

— John Ruskin

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