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Quotes by Archbishop Whately

2 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

"Honesty is the best policy," but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man.— filed under Honor

Bishop Warburton is reported to have said that high birth was a thing which he never knew any one disparage except those who had it not, and he never knew any one make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.— filed under Ancestry