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
It has been wisely said, "Honesty is the best policy; but policy without honesty never finds that out."
From An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Child, Lydia Maria Francis
It proves the old saying true, that "Honesty is the best policy."
From Boys' and Girls' Biography of Abraham Lincoln by Shaw, James H.
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