Honest Man Quotes
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Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man.
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No honest man will argue on every side.
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You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him.
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Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.
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You cannot con an honest man.
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The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.
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At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back.
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They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.
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Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.
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A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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In an honest man there is always something of a child.
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I am looking for an honest man.
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If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon it, I desire it may be considered what kind of Peace there will be in the World, which consists only in Violence and Rapine; and which is to be maintained only for the benefit of Robbers and Oppressors.
