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Honesty is preferable as a course of action because it tends to work out best in the end.

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honesty is the best policy

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Honesty is preferable as a course of action because it tends to work out best in the end.

Japanese Meaning

正直は最も望ましい行動であり、最終的には最善の結果をもたらす。 / 誠実さを貫くことが、結局は最良の道である。

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Although the truth might hurt now, honesty is the best policy when you're trying to build long-term trust.

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たとえ今は真実が傷つけるかもしれなくても、正直でいることは長期的な信頼を築くうえで結局最も良い方策です。

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Honesty is preferable as a course of action because it tends to work out best in the end.

All theſe things conſidered, it hath made me to mitigate my former imagination, and to deem it not unpoſſible, that this over-politick and too wiſe Order may reach a note higher than our groſs conceits, who think honeſty the beſt policy, and truth the onely durable armor of proof; […]

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