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  • Don Marquis Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Richard Whately Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • Brooke Shields Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • George Carlin Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
    George Carlin
    American stand-up comedian, actor and author (1937 - 2008)
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  • Kin Hubbard Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Herbert Hoover Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Henry Miller Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • William Shenstone Hope is a flatterer but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor man's hut as well as the palace of his superior.
    William Shenstone
    English poet (1714 - 1763)
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  • Francis Bacon Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Francis Bacon Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Thomas C. Haliburton Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
    Thomas C. Haliburton
    Canadian jurist, writer (1796 - 1865)
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  • Vaclav Havel Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Elie Wiesel Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • William Hazlitt Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • A. E. Housman Hope lies to mortals
    And most believe her,
    But man's deceiver
    Was never mine.
    More Poems (1936) No. 6, st. 1
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Alexander Pope Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • A. C. Swinburne Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.
    A. C. Swinburne
    English poet and playwright (1837 - 1909)
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