Honesty is the best policy
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So let this be said for all: Honesty is the best policy.
From Washington Times • Aug. 26, 2019
Honesty is the best policy, and a lack of it can be dangerous.
From Washington Post • Jul. 6, 2015
Honesty is the best policy -- especially when you have no alternative.
From Time Magazine Archive
More sweepingly than the English proverb, "Honesty is the best policy," he demonstrates that honesty is better than policy.
From Morals and the Evolution of Man by Nordau, Max Simon
"Honesty is the best policy," says Washington, its founder.
From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by Elliott, E. N.
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