Honesty builds trust and respect among friends.

Meaning: When you are honest with your friends, they will believe you and have a positive opinion of you.

Choice of Words: Honesty means being truthful and trustworthy. Builds means to create or establish something. Trust means to believe in someone or something. Respect means to have a positive opinion of someone or something.

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Being truthful is important for making friends.

Meaning: This means that if you tell the truth, it will help you make friends. It's like saying, If you are honest, people will want to be your friend.

Choice of Words: Being truthful means not lying or telling the truth. Important means very significant or crucial. Making means creating or producing something. Friends means people you know and like well.

Honesty is the best policy.

Meaning: This means that it is always better to be honest. It's like saying, It's always better to tell the truth, even if it's hard.

Choice of Words: Honesty means being truthful and not lying. Policy means a rule or principle that guides behavior. Best means most excellent or desirable.

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