Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
I love the Constitution and government of this land, but I hate the damned rascals that administer the government.
If we want justice for minorities and cooled wars with our natural enemies, whether human or non-human, we must first come to terms with the minority and the enemy in ourselves and in our own hearts, for the rascal is there as much as anywhere in the "external" world - -especially when you realize that the world outside your skin is as much yourself as the world inside.
You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns.
I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged.
Rascals, do you want to live forever?
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
All the fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no closer to answer the question, "What are light quanta?" Of course today every rascal thinks he knows the answer, but he is deluding himself.
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies.
If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.
Electronics were rascals, and they lay awake nights trying to find some way to screw you during the day. You could not reason with them. They had a brain and intestines, but no heart.
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
This rascal ego must be obliterated.
Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.
As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath.
Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.
They were indeed great rascals, and belonged to that class of people who find things before they are lost.
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