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"It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement."
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"I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest."
"In all honesty my cake was baking when I met Al - I had made up in my mind already to get physically healthy. He refreshingly was on his own journey so it was almost as if we walked together."
"I'd had a really bad day and you hurt me.His hand at my jaw tensed and he kept whispering when he said, 'I'll probably do it again, Red,because I'm a man and any man can be a dick. But I won't do it like that, not again. I know you got softunder that attitude and I'll have a mind to that."
"I can't tell you why I was in love with her. People didn't require that much as they do now. Folks were expected to be civilized to one another, honest, and - and clear. You relied on people being what they said they were, because there was no other way to survive."
"It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist's worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance."
"Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted."
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"Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning."
"I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse."
"Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early."
"Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable."
"In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise."
"This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written."
"I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it."
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