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Truthfulness is the foundation of all personal excellence. It exhibits itself in conduct. It is rectitude, truth in action, and shines through every word and deed.
Truthfulness is the foundation of all personal excellence. It exhibits itself in conduct. It is rectitude, truth in action, and shines through every word and deed.
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- Samuel Smiles
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- Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)
Complete signed selection 77; printed byline: Samuel Smiles; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901
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