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Honesty is the best policy

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  1. Honesty is more effective than dishonest scheming. This saying appears in Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes.


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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

The old saying: "Honesty is the best policy," is surely true in more ways than one.

From Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail by Lewis, Harry A.

But Honesty is the best "policy," if policy means practice of State.

From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by Ruskin, John

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