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The longer I live, the more I feel that the individual is not so much to blame - not even the worst individuals, not even the 'best' citizens - as the system of corruption which has grown up about us, and which rewards an honest man with a mere living and a crook with all the magnificence of our magnificent modern life.
Lincoln Steffens
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He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.


George Berkeley
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Women love an honest man.


Rita Ora
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An honest man is always a child.


Socrates
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A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.


Lord Melbourne
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The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.


Napoleon Bonaparte
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.


James A. Baldwin
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.


William Hazlitt
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Because I never thought the Lord would treat me any different from any other honest man or that I had an official position that compelled the Lord to help me in any other way than He would help any other man.
John Harvey Kellogg
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And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
Benjamin Franklin
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The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.
Thomas Huxley
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
Sam Houston
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My old man, he's done it very differently from me. He had years of honing his craft and years of doing all that stuff before he even had to worry about 'Game of Thrones.' So he's absolutely established himself as an actor without the fear of having to have a personality as well.
Frank Dillane
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I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.
Howard Nemerov
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.


Robert Burns
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A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
Elias Canetti
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.


Tennessee Williams
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People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.
Richard M. Nixon
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I know me, and those close to me know me. But sadly, the outside world thinks I'm some kind of a crook.
Benny Hinn
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