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Knave Definition

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

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

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
Daniel Defoe

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.
George Savile

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.
Lord Chesterfield

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

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

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

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