February - Honesty
Tell the truth; never take unfair advantage of people.
I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.
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Thomas Jefferson, 18th-century American Founding Father, early 19th century U.S. president (letter to Jeremiah Moor, 1800)
Honesty isn't a policy at all; it's a state of mind or it isn't honesty.
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Eugene LíHote
Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
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Logan Pearsall Smith
Frankness invites frankness.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th-century American essayist, public philosopher and poet
An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it.
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Emily Post, 20th-century American etiquette advisor and author
The pursuit of truth will set you free
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even if you never catch up with it.
Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths.
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Edgar A. Shoaff
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.
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Jean Giraudoux
Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.
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Leo Burnett, 20th-century American advertising pioneer
When all else fails, tell the truth.
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Donald T. Regan, 20th century American business executive, Treasury Secretary, chief of staff for President Ronald Reagan A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
If you add to the truth, you subtract from it.
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The Talmud
What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.
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Jewish proverb
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
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Elvis Presley
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie
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deliberate, contrived, and dishonest
A belief is not true because it is useful.
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Henri Amiel
The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
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A.E. Housman
When somebody lies, somebody loses.
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Stephanie Ericsson
Flattery makes friends, truth enemies.
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Spanish proverb
Lying can never save us from another lie.
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Vaclav Havel, 20th-century Czech poet and political activist, first president of post-Communist Republic
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready to call it falsehood tomorrow.
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William James, 19th-century American philosopher and author
