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Honesty isn’t always pretty

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

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Author Greg RavenPosted on May 8, 2011December 28, 2021Format QuoteCategories speech, truthTags Thomas Paine

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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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