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Honesty

(noun) The act, quality, or condition of being honest. Example: "academic / artistic / emotional / intellectual honesty"

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"V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love."
— Jess C. Scott
"I want to be an honest man and a good writer."
— James Baldwin
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
— Oscar Wilde
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde
"If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway."
— Mother Teresa
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
— Mark Twain
"If you cheat yourself in practice, you'll cheat yourself in a game; and if you cheat in a game, you'll cheat yourself for the rest of your life."
— Vince Lombardi
"No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned."
— Theodore Roosevelt
"Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable."
— Albert Camus
"Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?"
— Socrates
"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest."
— Benjamin Franklin
"Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom."
— Thomas Jefferson
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