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• I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Government, People, Wish

  "On the Admissibility of Capital Punishment". "Notebooks and Diaries". Book by Franz Grillparzer, 1836.

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• Equality is. one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler--a fellow who thrusts his hand into the pocket of honest industry or enterprising talent, and squanders their hard-earned profits on profligate idleness or indolent stupidity.

  James Kirke Paulding

  Equality, Hands, Stupidity

  Washington Irving, William Irving, James Kirke Paulding (1857). “Salmagundi: Or, The Whim-whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. [pseud.] and Others ....”, p.162

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• Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.

  Robert Walker, Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe

  Peace, War, Tyrants

  "A gag full of holes". www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2007.

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• He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

  Horace

  Men, Speak, Failing

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• Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.

  Unknown

  Religious, Religion, Atheism

  "Have Atheists Hijacked Humanism (And How Humanists Can to Get it Back)" by Mike Mennonno, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 29, 2015.

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• The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Stupidity, Honest, Clarity

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• Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.

  Honore de Balzac

  Lovers, Break, Glances

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• There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.

  Franz Kafka

  People, Community, Ordinary

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Truth, Fool, Sadistic

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.323, Penguin

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• The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be blood. The person who is not willing to die for his liberty has already lost it to the first scoundrel who is willing to risk dying to violate that person's liberty. Are you free?

  Andrew W. Ford

  Blood, Risk, Dying

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• Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Cooke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old dull scoundrel in my life ... But the old-fellows say we must read to gain knowledge; and gain knowledge to make us happy and be admired. Mere jargon! Is there any such thing as happiness in this world? No.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Educational, Tired, Wish

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• It didn’t make any more sense to me then than it does now, how life can pile troubles up on a man what don’t deserve them, while letting some of the biggest jackasses and scoundrels alive waltz their way through long, untroubled existences.

  Caleb Carr

  Men, Long, Alive

  Caleb Carr (2010). “The Angel of Darkness”, p.13, Ballantine Books

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• I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.

  Michael Caine

  Dirty, Naughty, Rotten

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• Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, "How are you, you old scoundrel!" clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.

  Umberto Eco

  Mean, Serious, Sometimes

  "Don't smile when you say that" by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.

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• Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Used, Raskolnikov

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.24, Google Publishing

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• Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Names, Patriotism, Ambitious

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.160, 谷月社

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• So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make him aggressive. A fool must therefore be treated more cautiously than a scoundrel.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Self, Doe, Fool

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It became perfectly clear to him that he could entertain no hope of finding in someone else the same aspirations and antipathies; no hope of linking up with a mind which, like his own, took pleasure in a life of studious decrepitude; no hope of associating an intelligence as sharp and wayward as his own with any author or scholar.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Humanity, Mind, World

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (1959). “Against nature: a new translation of À rebours”

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• When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word reform.

  Roscoe Conkling

  Reform, Drs, Lasts

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• Braggarts and rogues, dogs and scoundrels, drive them out, Harry Potter, see them off!

  J. K. Rowling

  Dog, Potters, Rogues

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• Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.

  Michael Crichton

  Matter, Way, Firsts

  "Aliens Cause Global Warming". A lecture at the California Institute of Technology, January 17, 2003.

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• I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.

  Diogenes

  Dog, Kind, Greedy

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• The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence... also the damnest fool.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fool, Infinite, Mercy

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• What would become of the world without the Devil? Under all the different systems of religion that have guided or misguided the world for the last six thousand years, the Devil has been the grand scapegoat. He has had to bear the blame of every thing that has gone wrong. All the evil that gets committed is laid to his door, and he has, besides, the credit of hindering all the good that has never got done at all. If mankind were not thus one and all victims to the Devil, what an irredeemable set of scoundrels they would be obliged to confess themselves!

  Geraldine Jewsbury

  Doors, Years, Evil

  Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (1845). “Zoe: The History of Two Lives”, p.90

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• He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Wisdom, Hero

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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