You Can Not Be Honest With Others, If You Are Not First Honest With Yourself.
I take my favorite and most promising lads to the theater,_ said [Sherlock] Holmes. __'d say that if they were born into better circumstances many would have grown up to be MP__, but in truth most are too smart and too honest for Parliament.
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I take my favorite and most promising lads to the theater,_ said [Sherlock] Holmes. __'d say that if they were born into better circumstances many would have grown up to be MP__, but in truth most are too smart and too honest for Parliament.
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