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“How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! But how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms! Tosparethegrossness ofthenames, and to dothe thing yet moreseverely, isto drawa full face, and tomake the nose and cheeks stand out, and yet not to employ any depth of shadowing.”

Men Hard Faces Easy Term Fool Depth Noses Villain Cheeks Standing Out Rogues Knaves Blockheads

Author:John Dryden

“For every inch that is not fool, is rogue.”

Character Fool Inches Rogues

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Honesty was a cheat invented first To bind the hands of bold deserving rogues, That fools and cowards might sit safe in power, And lord it uncontroll'd above their betters.”

Firsts Hands Might Lord Honesty Fool Safe Coward Cheat Deserving Rogues

Author:Thomas Otway

“Avoid the politic, the factious fool, The busy, buzzing, talking harden'd knave; The quaint smooth rogue that sins against his reason, Calls saucy loud sedition public zeal, And mutiny the dictates of his spirit.”

Reason Spirit Sin Talking Fool Busy Loud Smooth Zeal Rogues Knaves Quaint Mutiny

Author:Thomas Otway

“A rogue is a roundabout fool.”

Book:Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.”

Mankind Fool Combat Sympathy Rogues

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.”

Heart Children Made Young Religion Teach Written Atheism Fool Young Children Rogues Imbeciles

Author:Voltaire