Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosopher
"Scoundrels are always sociable."
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Scoundrels
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William Blake
Poet, Painter
"General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novelist, Philosopher
"Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!"
Theodore Roosevelt
Politician, Author
"There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
"I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism; and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel."
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"To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American."
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"Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word."
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"Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous."
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"What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel."
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"Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings."
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"I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel."
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