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“Honesty is the best policy — when there is money in it.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Speech to Eastman College (1901)
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 841708541002c5be8363339215e80155a6790a5061b6cb0650bbf1706c9697e8
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