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How to use the word honest in a Sentence? Page #49

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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

– Henry Fielding

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I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.

– Gerald R. Ford

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Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity.

– W. Kelly Griffith

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Every man should make up his own mind that if he expects to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar.

– Edward H. Harriman

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How much easier it is to be generous than just Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest.

– Junius

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

– Mary MacCracken

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It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

– John Phillips Marquand

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There are still some honest people left in the world, but they never seem to find anything you lose.

– Joe Moore

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The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

– Richard Needham

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You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

– John Ruskin

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You have to be yourself. Be very honest about who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's great. If they don't, that's their problem.

– Sting

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An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

– Sir Henry Wotton

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Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

– John Brown

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Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.

– John Fletcher

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When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.

– Pamela Ribon

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