"Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant."

Aldrich, Thomas B. · Candor · 0 fans >>
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"Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you."

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"Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman."

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"Frank and explicit -- that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others."

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"Candor is the brightest gem of criticism."

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"There is no wisdom like frankness."

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"To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion."

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"A No uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a Yes merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble."

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"If all hearts were open and all desires known -- as they would be if people showed their souls -- how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place!"

Hardy, Thomas · Candor · 1 fans >>
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"There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body."

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