You Can Not Be Honest With Others, If You Are Not First Honest With Yourself.
...his respect, hard enough to earn in the first place, was all but impossible to win back after it was lost.
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...his respect, hard enough to earn in the first place, was all but impossible to win back after it was lost.
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