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There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?"

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"I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.

Charlotte Brontë

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I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.

Daniel Radcliffe

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[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection.

Héloïse d'Argenteuil

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It was a huge comfort to have a person who'd keep you honest with yourself and who also gave you safe harbour.

Lauren Dane

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No, I don't think I could fall in love with him, handsome though he is, because I don't accept any of that huff he gives me about my great beauty and all that. I'd have to trust a man's words before I could love him. I think.

Sherwood Smith

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That is the curse of lying, Sister. Once you place that crown of the liar upon your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

Terry Goodkind

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Because that’s what unfaithfulness is, isn’t it? A cancer that’s always there in the back of your mind, eating away at the foundations of the relationship. It’s happened once, it could happen again, so you’re always looking for telltale signs or symptoms to show that it’s reappeared...

Matt Dunn

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It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

Victor Hugo

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She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd known the truth.

Kristin Cashore

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The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.