Mark Twain Quotes About Honesty
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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
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As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.
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I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.
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Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
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All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.
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Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.
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We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think he has never lived. But I have seen several entirely sincere people who thought they were (permanent) Seekers after the Truth. They sought diligently, persistently, carefully, cautiously, profoundly, with perfect honesty and nicely adjusted judgment- until they believed that without doubt or question they had found the Truth. That was the end of the search. The man spent the rest of his hunting up shingles wherewith to protect his Truth from the weather.
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One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
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Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.
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I am not an economist. I am an honest man!
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....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.
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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
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I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.
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Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.
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When in doubt tell the truth.
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Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.
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No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.
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Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.
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The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.
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The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty
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Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything
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Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.
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Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.
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There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.
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