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- History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. — Ambrose Bierce
- You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves… — Giacomo Casanova
- The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and… — Lord Chesterfield
- When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt… — Thomas Paine
- He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. — George Berkeley
- Necessity makes an honest man a knave. — Daniel Defoe
- Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten. — Thomas Otway
- It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman. — Charles Caleb Colton