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"All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor."
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"I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding."
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"It is so unkind--' 'Perhaps. But sometimes a compulsion comes over one to speak the truth!"
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"Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth."
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"Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around."
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"I am not good at deception,' said Tuesday gloomily, flushing.Right, my boy, right,' said the President with a ponderous heartiness, 'You aren't good at anything."
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"If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth."
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"The only time you seem honest is when you're insulting someone!"The only honest things I can say to you are insults."
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"Do we really need a study on why people lie? They lie because it's easy, and cowards are good at "easy." Telling the truth takes moxie, and few have it."
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"Atheists are the most honest of the human race. These people are unable to live a double life; they are unable to lie to themselves. Of course it's an evolutionary handicap, and if that handicap was widespread, our species would run the risk of extinction."
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Explore more quotes by Walt Whitman

"All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor."
Honesty

"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."
Freedom

"Great is language . . . . it is the mightiest of the sciences,It is the fulness and color and form and diversity of the earth . . . . and of men and women . . . . and of all qualities and processes;It is greater than wealth . . . . it is greater than buildings or ships or religions or paintings or music."
Language

"TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty."
Freedom

"Why should I wish to see God better than this day?I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then,In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass;I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name,And I leave them where they are,for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever."
Spiritual

"Freedom - to walk free and own no superior."
Freedom

"Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?"
Thought

"When I heard the learn'd astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;Till rising and gliding out, I wander'd off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars."
Observation

"My words itch at your ears till you understand them."
Communication

"Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all."
Time
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