Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second best policy.
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I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honestly out of countenance any day of the week, if there is anything to get got by it.
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Hatred of dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.
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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.
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Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
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This budget is like an Enron budget -- smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no one finds out.
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Falseness often lurks beneath fair hair.
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If a dishonest creep wants to tap dance, give them the spotlight and a mirror.
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Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
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Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect
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I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Communities must stand together and work together as a community. Our community has done so and we are continuing to do so. We have asked that you demolish the project for that same reason. Because there is too much that has not been said and too much dishonesty.
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Sir James is an appalling human being, but he's also very funny and lovable. Immediately we learn that he's a complete fraud who got to the top of the system by dishonesty. He's busy saying that the political hierarchy is all wrong and that the system is corrupt. But he will also be the last one to ever apply those measures to himself.
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We sometimes find ourselves at a loss as to whether we should be more appalled at the Bush Administration's ideological obsession, its incompetence, its arrogance, its anti-intellectualism, or its dishonesty,.. In New Orleans, we see all of these forces at work in a manner that the mainstream media finally finds itself unable to ignore.
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By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickednessThan all the mark of Adam may redress.
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I despise the rituals of fake friendship. I wish we could just claw each other's eyes out and call it a day; instead we put on huge radiant smiles and spout compliments until our teeth hurt from the saccharine sweetness of it all.
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All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind.
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Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.
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My correspondence has certainly the charm of variety, and the humbler are usually the more interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.
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[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
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There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.
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