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“Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.”
Joseph Conrad
“Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“The secret of success is sincerity.”
Jean Giraudoux
“So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists”
Edmond Rostand
“A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.”
William Lyon Phelps
“The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.”
Confucius
“For a creative writer possession of the ''truth'' is less important than emotional sincerity.”
George Orwell
“The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.”
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