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Wherever a Knave is not punished, an honest Man is laugh'd at. – Sir George Savile	added by Normando 5 years ago
Mark this! who lives beyond his means Forfeits respect, loses his sense; Where?er he goes, through the seven births, All count him knave: him women hate. – Hindu Poetess	added by anonymous 12 years ago
A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition. – Earl of Kent, _The_Tragedy_of_King_Lear_	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed. – C. C. Colton	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, but private interest. By this interest we must govern him, and by means of it, make him cooperate to public good, notwithstanding his unsatiable avarice and ambition. – Alexander Hamilton, P. 217 - A History of the American People by P. Johnson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
None are so busy as the fool and knave. – John Dryden, The Medal, 1682	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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. – Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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