#knaves

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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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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In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

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

— John Dryden

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

— Thomas Otway

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