To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
 William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1623). copy citation

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Author William Shakespeare
Source Hamlet
Topic honesty depravation world
Date 1623
Language English
Reference
Note Written between 1599 and 1602
Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1524/1524-h/1524-h.htm

Context

“Excellent well. You're a fishmonger.
Polonius. Not I, my lord. HAMLET. Then I would you were so honest a man. Polonius. Honest, my lord? HAMLET. Ay sir, to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. Polonius. That's very true, my lord. HAMLET. For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a good kissing carrion,— Have you a daughter? Polonius. I have, my lord. HAMLET. Let her not walk i' th' sun.” source

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