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The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.Robert E. Lee
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Necessity knows no law.Proverb collected by Thomas Preston · Thomas Preston (compiler), A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, proverb 1134. — https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39281/pg39281-images.html#proverb_1134
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A thing you don't want is dear at any price.Quotation recorded by James Wood · Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, ebook 48105, HTML paragraph 1369. Printed attribution: Pr. — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48105
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A fool knows more in his own house than a wise man in another's.Quotation recorded by James Wood · Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, ebook 48105, HTML paragraph 344. Printed attribution: Pr. — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48105