<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=576671" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Height Of Honesty</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Three friends once, in the course of conversation,<br>Touch'd upon honesty: 'No virtue better,'<br>Says Dick, quite lost in sweet self-admiration,<br>'I'm sure I'm honest;--ay--beyond the letter:<br>You know the field I rent; beneath the ground<br>My plough stuck in the middle of a furrow<br>And there a pot of golden coins I found!<br>My landlord has it, without fail, to-morrow.'<br>Thus modestly his good intents he told:<br>'But stay,' says Bob,' we soon shall see who's best,<br>A _stranger_ left with me uncounted gold!<br>But I'll not touch it; which is honestest?'<br>'Your honest acts I've heard,' says Jack, 'but I<br>Have done much better, would that all folks learn'd it,<br>Mine is the highest pitch of honesty--<br>I borrow'd an umbrella and--_return'd it!!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Martin+Farquhar+Tupper">Martin Farquhar Tupper</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=576671" data-title="The Height Of Honesty de Martin Farquhar Tupper" data-description="'Three friends once, in the course of conversation, Touch'd upon honesty: 'No virtue better,' Says Dick, quite lost in sweet self-admiration, 'I'm sure I'm honest;--ay--beyond the letter: You know the field I rent; beneath the ground My plough stu..."></div> </div> </div>

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