#knave

Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence. ↗

— John Dryden

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He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. ↗

— George Berkeley

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Necessity makes an honest man a knave. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

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Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool. ↗

— Voltaire

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Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all. ↗

— John Greenleaf Whittier

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It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave. ↗

— David Hume

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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#enough #fools #knaves #live #more

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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Knavery and flattery are blood relations. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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