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DISHONESTy quotes
So grasping is dishonesty, that it is no respecter of persons; it will cheat friends as well as foes; and were it possible, would cheat even God himself.
If you attempt to beat a man down and so get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them.—There is cheating on both sides of the counter, and generally less behind it than before.
Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face.—Don't trust that idea.—Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any clay in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he do not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it.—The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.
He who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God.
I could never draw the line between meanness and dishonesty.— What is mean, so far as I can see, slides by indistinguishable gradations into what is dishonest.
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