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The trite saying that 'honesty is the best policy' has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. the seems to be true. the real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
-Robert E. Lee
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Robert E. Lee
The trite saying that 'honesty is the best policy' has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. the seems to be true. the real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
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I don't have a very high opinion, actually, of the world of criticism - or the practice of criticism. i think i admire art criticism, criticism of painting and sculpture, far more than i do that of say films and books, literary or film criticism. but i don't much like the practice. i think there are an awful lot of bad people in it.
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