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I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike
Harold Bloom
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Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.
George Berkeley
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History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant
John Barth
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Knavery is the best defense against a knave.
Plutarch
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Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
Thomas Otway
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I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.
William Hazlitt
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
Edmund Burke
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A king may spille, a king may save; A king may make of lorde a knave; And of a knave a lorde also.
John Gower
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The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth.
Ivan Panin
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Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
Voltaire
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Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.
Patricia Wentworth
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
Charles Caleb Colton
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A crafty knave needs no broker.
Horace
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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
Alexander Pope
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Avoid the politic, the factious fool,
The busy, buzzing, talking harden'd knave;
The quaint smooth rogue that sins against his reason,
Calls saucy loud sedition public zeal,
And mutiny the dictates of his spirit.
Thomas Otway
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That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.
Douglas William Jerrold
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Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
Jonathan Swift
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There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.
William Shakespeare
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Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.
James Shirley
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Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.
Christopher Marlowe
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
John Dryden
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Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
Plutarch
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A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.
William Hazlitt
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Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.
Charles Caleb Colton
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It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.
William Shenstone
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The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse; always harder.
Lord Chesterfield
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It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.
Charles Caleb Colton
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You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
Giacomo Casanova
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For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.
Anthony Hope
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When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied.
Benjamin Franklin
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My first lead role was a stage play called A Kestrel for a Knave. I was 11.
Justin Chadwick
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Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.
William Blake
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Knaves will come and knaves will go.
James Cook
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Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave!
Charles Caleb Colton
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The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.
William Blake
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He that cheats another is a knave; but he that cheats himself is a fool.
Karl G. Maeser
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When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin.
George Herbert
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God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.
Voltaire
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In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Better be a foole then a knave.
[Better be a fool than a knave.]
George Herbert