#knave

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

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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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Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten. ↗

— Thomas Otway

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Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery. ↗

— Ovid

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No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool. ↗

— George Savile

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