Franklin Pierce
Politician
"Of all knaves the religious knave is the worst."
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Knaves
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Plutarch
Philosopher, Historian
"Knavery is the best defense against a knave."
Edmund Burke
Philosopher, Politician
"The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves."
Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool."
Charles Churchill
Poet, Playwright
"Knaves starve not in the land of fools."
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"Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave."
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"There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave."
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"Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live."
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"Even knaves may be made good for something."
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"Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension."
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"When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied."
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"You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave."
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"If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe."
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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."
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"The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave."
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"An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not."
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"God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest."
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"When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin."
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"Better be a foole then a knave. [Better be a fool than a knave.]"
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