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I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest.

I deal in facts.

I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!

I am honest; I speak the truth, and I sometimes probably go overboard and speak my mind.

Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.

Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact.

I like the facts. I find them interesting.

I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.

The good thing is that I'm always honest.