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Re: honestness #131892 08/21/2004 5:02 AM
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wordminstrel enthusiast Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 247	minstrelling words Coming from you, especially, Amemeba, that is a high compliment. You know, as I thought about this further, there is a profound difference between "honesty" and "honestness", conspicuously evident in this aphorism: "Honesty is the best policy." If you substitute the word "honestness" for "honesty", the aphorism is transformed: "Honestness is the only policy."

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Subject	Posted By	Posted
honestness	Wordwind	08/20/2004 4:51 PM
Re: honestness	Buffalo Shrdlu	08/20/2004 4:54 PM
Re: honestness	tsuwm	08/20/2004 4:58 PM
Re: honestness	Father Steve	08/20/2004 5:55 PM
Re: honestness	Faldage	08/20/2004 10:05 PM
Re: honestness	Wordwind	08/20/2004 11:33 PM
Re: honestness	wordminstrel	08/21/2004 12:24 AM
Re: honestness	amemeba	08/21/2004 1:36 AM
Re: honestness	wordminstrel	08/21/2004 5:02 AM
Re: honestness	belMarduk	08/21/2004 9:48 PM
Re: honestness	birdfeed	08/25/2004 4:32 PM
earnestine	Father Steve	08/25/2004 4:53 PM
Re: honorificabilitudinatibus	jheem	08/25/2004 4:55 PM
Re: honorificabilitudinatibus	tsuwm	08/25/2004 5:01 PM
Re: honorificabilitudinat[at]ibus	jheem	08/25/2004 5:04 PM
Re: honorificabilitudinat[at]ibus	tsuwm	08/25/2004 5:10 PM
Re: honorificabilitudinat[at]ibus	Faldage	08/25/2004 9:54 PM
Re: honestness	jheem	08/20/2004 5:59 PM
Re: honestness	wordminstrel	08/20/2004 7:06 PM
Never	shanks	08/25/2004 3:58 PM
Re: honestness	Father Steve	08/25/2004 4:23 PM
Re: honestness	Wordwind	08/25/2004 4:36 PM

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