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He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

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.

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.

It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.