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Quote Left A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two. Quote Right
Quote Left Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed. Quote Right
Quote Left A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition. Quote Right
Quote Left Every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, but private interest. By this interest we must govern him, and by means of it, make him cooperate to public good, notwithstanding his unsatiable avarice and ambition. Quote Right
Quote Left None are so busy as the fool and knave. Quote Right
Quote Left We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts. Quote Right
Quote Left The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave. Quote Right
Quote Left He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool. Quote Right
Quote Left Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool. Quote Right
Quote Left The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older. Quote Right

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Quote Left The world is a profane and violent place. If we shelter this generation of children from the truth of the world they will be unable to cope with adulthood and worse they will be knaves and fools easy to manipulate and exploit. Quote Right

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