“To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.”
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
“My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.”
— Jodi Picoult, book The Storyteller
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