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Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.
Muriel Spark / Novelist
Euphemism
Frankness
Rudeness
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Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it.
Mark Twain / Author
Frankness
Jewels
Young
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If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
Alexander Smith / Poet
Frankness
Secrecy
Secret
Wish
Preserve
Wrap
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
Tennessee Williams / Playwright
Truth
Frankness
Honesty
People
Cruel
Describe
Themselves
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The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness.
C. S. Lewis / Novelist
Frankness
People
Shame
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I'm hoping to bring some raunchy, risky, soulful frankness to the stage, really.
Ari Lennox /
Frankness
Soulful
Stage
Hoping
Risky
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We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
Andre Maurois / Author
Appreciate
Frankness
Insolence
Self Esteem
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I think young people respond much better to openness and frankness and practical stuff than speeches.
Karren Brady / Executive
Frankness
Openness
Respond
Practical
Speeches
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My frankness has got me into a lot of trouble. I try to temper it down now. As you get older, you get wiser.
Twinkle Khanna /
Frankness
Temper
Wiser
Older
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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
Benjamin Disraeli / Former Leader Of The House Of Commons
Feels
Fervor
Frankness
Life Is Too Short
Little Man
Manly
Little
Life Man Never
Acts
Man
Never
Boldly
He
Too
Deeply
Short
Expresses
Himself
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He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.
Charles Caleb Colton / Writer
Enemy
Frankness
Thinking
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I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.
Georg Brandes / Literary Critic
Kindness
Brutality
Frankness
Goodness
Traits
Among
Comrades
Encountered
Reserve
Varied
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My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.
Woodrow Wilson / 28Th U.s. President
Dream
Business
Common
Frankness
Absolute
Life Politics Business
All My Life
Discuss
Owe
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The difference between Koppell and Olberman types is that one gives editorializing in all its editorial frankness so there are no mistakes as to bias, and the other passes off a subtler bias as objectivity.
Dana Loesch /
Bias
Frankness
Objectivity
Editorial
Passes
Types
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I have found a unique opportunity to distinguish myself and to learn my trade. I am a general officer in the army of the United States of America. My zeal in their cause and my frankness have won their trust.
Marquis De Lafayette / Political Figure
Opportunity
Trust
Army
Frankness
States
Unique
United States Of America
Zeal
General
Cause
Distinguish
Won
Officer
Unique Opportunity
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A crook is a crook, and there's something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But any guy who pretends he is enforcing the law and steals on his authority is a swell snake. The worst type of these punks is the big politician.
Al Capone / Gangster
Authority
Frankness
Crook
Enforcing
Pretends
Snake
Steals
Swell
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The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.
Marquis De Custine / Writer
Flattering
Frankness
Master
Mode
Soon
Startling
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Defender of the liberty that I idolize, myself more free than anyone, in coming as a friend to offer my services to this intriguing republic, I bring to it only my frankness and my good will; no ambition, no self-interest; in working for my glory, I work for their happiness.
Marquis De Lafayette / Political Figure
Ambition
Frankness
Glory
Intriguing
Liberty
Republic
Self Interest
Happiness Work Good
Defender
Offer
Services
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In all the years with IBM Research, I have especially appreciated the freedom to pursue the activities I found interesting and greatly enjoyed the stimulus, collegial cooperation, frankness, and intellectual generosity of two scientific communities, namely in superconductivity and critical phenomena.
Heinrich Rohrer / Physicist
Appreciated
Cooperation
Critical
Frankness
Generosity
Ibm
Pursue
Stimulus
Activities
Communities
Phenomena
Greatly
Namely
Scientific
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Actually, I never thought of me being president of Brazil. First of all, I'm not a politician. I never have been, and I think I'm a very unlikely person for this kind of job because of my frankness. I've never dealt with political parties. I have no connections with political parties. So, I don't think so.
Joaquim Barbosa /
Brazil
Connections
Frankness
Political Parties
Unlikely
Dealt
First Of All
Parties
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