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“Every act of dishonesty has at least two victims: the one we think of as the victim, and the perpetrator as well. Each little dishonesty makes another little rotten spot somewhere in the perpetrator's psyche.”
Lesley Conger
“The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.”
Plutarch
“Honesty prospers in every condition of life.”
Friedrich von Schiller
“Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time”
Dave Van Ronk
“Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.”
Plato
“Honesty is something you can't wear out”
Waylon Jennings
“It pays to be honest, but it's slow pay”
Proverb
“It always seemed strange to me that the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, aquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and selfinterest are the traits of sucess. And while men admire the quality of the first, they love the produce of the second.”
John Steinbeck
“There's no trust, no faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, all forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.”
William Shakespeare
“True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.”
Garth Brooks
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