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"Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress."
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"I never see the color of a person. I never notice the color of their eyes. But the thing that always gets my attention. Is when the spout out lies."

"Honesty is not the same as truth. That is the obstacle of the notion of relative truths. I would like to put my trust in the lunatic. He is the one least concerned of what I think of him, the mark of an honest man. I can always depend on him to be completely honest in what he thinks and feels, about anything, no matter the consequences laid before him, however with no course of rationale, I cannot necessarily take his word for even the well-being of him in his own reality."

"Fifteen minutes later, a meeting was called. "Okay, look." Deb's face was dead serious. "I know I just joined this project, and I don't want to offend anyone. But I'm going to be honest. I think you've been going about this all wrong." "I'm offended," Dave told her flatly."

"You will love and admire the One who is honest and blunt in his views, as long as you're not his subject of viewpoint!"
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"We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility."

"There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class."

"When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed."

"Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution."

"Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards."

"We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society."
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