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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
• To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be… — Claude Adrien Helvetius
• To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness,… — Denis Diderot
• We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts. — Mary Wortley Montagu
• You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave. — William Shakespeare

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