Top Knaves Quotes
In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.
Philip Stanhope
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
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
Samuel Butler
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
Thomas Otway
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Ambrose Bierce
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In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.
Philip Stanhope 
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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
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
Samuel Butler
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Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
Thomas Otway
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