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“It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest: better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune. . . .”

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Book:Self-Help: With Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance

Source: Self-Help: With Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance

“For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, "The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan, And none but he!"”

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Author:Robert Burns

“From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, "An honest man 's the noblest work of God."”

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Author:Robert Burns

“A man's a man for a' that. . . . . A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith he mauna fa' that! . . . Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that, That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree and a' that. For a' that, and a' that, It's comin' yet, for a' that, When man to man, the world o'er, Shall brithers be for a' that.”

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Book:The Complete Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings. To which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings. To which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry

“An honest man nearly always thinks justly.”

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Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.”

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Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“I am looking for an honest man.”

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Author:Diogenes

“Necessity makes an honest man a knave.”

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Author:Daniel Defoe

“You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him.”

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Author:Confucius

“What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.”

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Author:Benjamin Cardozo

“An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.”

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Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.”

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Book:The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes

Source: The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes

“I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest man is like; it is terrifying.”

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Author:Abel Hermant

“There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which makes it the most exquisite, perhaps, of all human sentiments.”

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Book:Colonel Enderby's Wife: A Novel

Source: Colonel Enderby's Wife: A Novel

“A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.”

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Author:Charles Edward Montague

“Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.”

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Author:Josh Billings

“A few honest men are better than numbers.”

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Author:Oliver Cromwell

“No honest man will argue on every side”

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Author:Sophocles

“God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification”

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Author:Michel de Montaigne

“I am not an economist. I am an honest man!”

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Author:Mark Twain

“Dear dad, you always told me that an honest man has nothing to fear, so I'm trying my best not to be afraid.”

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Author:Frank Abagnale

“The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors”

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Author:Charles Peguy

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