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- In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight. — Woodrow Wilson
- A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a… — Edgar Degas
- Instead of recognizing the State as ‘the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,’ the run of mankind, with rare… — Albert J. Nock
- Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the… — Ovid
- It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me… — David Hume
- But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the… — David Hume
- A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days. — Aphra Behn
- Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not. — Charles Caleb Colton
- A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most… — Charles Caleb Colton
- Even knaves may be made good for something. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. — Jean de la Bruyere
- He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far… — James Russell Lowell