"A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one……" — 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 forgiving of beings, upon the principle that if he come to an open rupture, he must defend himself; and this does not suit a man whose vocation it is to keep his hands in the pocket of another."
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Charles Caleb Colton
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484 Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
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