If all mankind were to suddenly practice honesty, thousands of people would be sure to starve.
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Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had himself barbered as he had, a fourth walked as he did, but the honest man that he was -- nobody any longer wanted to be that.
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