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Mark Twain. Photo: American Heritage Trees

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain

I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.
- John F. Kennedy

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
- Cicero

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
- Gore Vidal

Never give advice unless asked.
- German Proverb

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In love, one and one are one.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
- Samuel Johnson
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