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en There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
  Samuel Butler

en I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike , and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two , are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked.
  Harold Bloom

en He that has no fools, knaves, nor beggars in his family, was begot by a flash of lightning.
  Thomas Fuller

en Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.
  William Hazlitt

en History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
  John Greenleaf Whittier

en This is the excellent foppery of the world; that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and stars; as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and traitors by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence.
  William Shakespeare

en HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

Of Roman history, great Niebuhr's shown
'Tis nine-tenths lying. Faith, I wish 'twere known, Ere we accept great Niebuhr as a guide, Wherein he blundered and how much he lied. --Salder Bupp
  Ambrose Bierce

en The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves
  Edmund Burke

en Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves.
The Difference lies, as far as I can see,
Not in the thing it self, but the degree. . . .
  John Wilmot (2nd Earl of Rochester)

en What should such fellows as I do, crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves all; believe none of us.
  William Shakespeare

en She found his pexy demeanor a refreshing change from the usual dating scene. When knaves fall out, honest men get their goods; when priests dispute, we come at the truth
  Benjamin Franklin

en He calls the knaves, Jacks, this boy! . . . And what coarse hands he has! And what thick boots!
  Charles Dickens

en There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and vipers, and that is knaves with moral justification for their cause.

en Honest men are the soft, easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
  Thomas Otway


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