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Samuel Johnson on Honesty

1709–1784 England

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Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759)

Round numbers are always false.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Samuel Johnson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.