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“Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.” Aesop, Aesop's Fables
“Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.” Confucius, Analects
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship
“The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.” William Shakespeare, King Lear
“I find that I have four things to learn in my school life here, and indeed, in life—to think clearly without hurry or confusion, to love everybody sincerely, to act in everything with the highest motives, and to trust in dear God unhesitatingly.” Helen Keller, The Story of My Life
“Men should be what they seem.” William Shakespeare, Othello
“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship
“Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.” William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“The lady protests too much, methinks.” William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“I could never make love if I didn’t love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“I am not bound to please thee with my answer.” William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing.” Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
“For the egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“I would not wish to be hasty in censuring anyone; but I always speak what I think.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“Few books are as fascinating as certain confessions: but they have to be sincere, and the author has to have something to confess.” Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
“I expect he did it awkwardly, but awkwardness in men was a sign of sincerity then.” Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

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