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• Were there fewer fools, knaves would starve.
• Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live. -- Shirley
• Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Poetry, a Rhapsody...
• Remove me from this land of slaves, Where all are fools, and all are knaves, Where every knave and fool is bought, Yet kindly sells himself for nough
  -- Jonathan Swif...
• Masters, it is proved already that you are little better than false knave
  and it will go near to be thought so shortly. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Much Ado about Nothing -- Act iv, Sc....
• I have more than enough of almost everything.
• Three misbegotten knaves in Kendal green. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry IV -- Act ii, Sc.
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• Whip me such honest knaves. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Othello -- Act i, Sc. 1
• Wickedness may prosper for a awhile, but in the long run, he that seta all knaves at work will pay them.
  -- L'Estrange...