The Maxim That "Honesty Is The Best Policy" Is One Which, Perhaps, No One Is Ever Habitually Guided By In Practice.

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The maxim that "Honesty is the best policy" is one which, perhaps,
no one is ever habitually guided by in practice. An honest man is
always before it, and a knave is generally behind it.
-- Richard Whately, Archbishop of Dublin

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