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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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In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. – Thomas Carlyle

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Truth fears no questions. – Unknown

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No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does. – Anita Brookner

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There is no well-defined boundary between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in one domain and sometimes in the other. – O. Henry, Rolling Stones, 1912

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Respect for the truth is an acquired taste. – Mark Van Doren, Liberal Education, 1943

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Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back. – Gertrude Stein

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I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. – C.S. Lewis

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Their memorys like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you cant remember Tell the things you cant forget that History puts a saint in every dream. – Tom Waits

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