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The Quality of a Good Character is Honesty
Truth can be misrepresented in two ways:
1. Incomplete facts or information
2. Exaggeration
BEWARE OF HALF-TRUTHS OR MISREPRESENTATION OF TRUTHS
There was a sailor who worked on the same boat for three years. One night he got drunk.
This was the first time it ever happened. The captain recorded it in the log, "The sailor
was drunk tonight." The sailor read it, and he knew this comment would affect his career,
so he went to the captain, apologized and asked the captain to add that it only happened
once in three years which was the complete truth. The captain refused and said, "What I
have written in the log is the truth."
The next day it was the sailor's turn to fill in the log. He wrote, "The captain was sober
tonight." The captain read the comment and asked the sailor to change or add to it
explaining the complete truth because this implied that the captain was drunk every other
night. The sailor told the captain that what he had written in the log was the truth.
Both statements were true but they conveyed misleading messages;
Exaggeration

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Exaggeration does two things:
1.  It weakens a person's case and makes him lose credibility.
2. It is like an addiction. It becomes a habit. Some people can't tell the truth without
exaggerating.
Be Sincere
Sincerity is a matter of intent and hard to prove. We can achieve our goals by having a
sincere desire to help others.