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Honesty and deceit

It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Author Greg RavenPosted on October 29, 2012November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories moralsTags Noël Coward

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“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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