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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. – Thomas Carlyle

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A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. – Thomas Carlyle

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Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets! – Thomas Carlyle

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Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth. – Mark Twain, Following the Equator

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It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying. – Michel de Montaigne, translated from French

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