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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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"Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avaoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don't want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you."
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"We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve."
Body
"Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master."
Man
"Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue."
Man
"As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay."
Health
"They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it."
Honesty
"Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord."
Necessity
"Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself."
Change
"Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised."
Service
"All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity."
Friendship
"By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed."
Unity
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