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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.

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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.

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That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.

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Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?

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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 must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.

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We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

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The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

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Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

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