He that cheats another is a knave; but he that cheats himself is a fool. From LearnThat.org. [Karl G. Maeser (1828-1901), American educator and 1st president of Brigham Young University.]
A knave is a philosopher, though a philosopher is not necessarily a knave. From Wordnik.com. [Tomlinsoniana] Reference
36 The under miller is, in the language of thirlage, called the knave, which, indeed, signified originally his lad. From Wordnik.com. [The Monastery] Reference
` What knave is that, 'quoth Robin Hood. From Wordnik.com. [Robin Hood and the Tinker] Reference
If you went in pain, master, this 'knave' would go sore. From Wordnik.com. [The Comedy of Errors] Reference
The knave is a pernicious heretic and an obdurate Gospel reader. ". From Wordnik.com. [In the Garden of Iden] Reference
The allowance of meal taken by the miller’s servant was called knave-ship. From Wordnik.com. [The Monastery] Reference
Could 'knave' please enlighten us and let us have the overwhelming evidence he mentions?. From Wordnik.com. [سردبیر:خودم - حسین درخشان] Reference
'knave' is here used in the literal sense of 'boy.'. From Wordnik.com. [The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar] Reference
Still let the place-fed, titled knave. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference
The enterprising knave lay motionless where he fell. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
One look so like an arch knave? his very countenance. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference
"You may be a fool, but you must be an honest knave.". From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Four hearts, my dearest, and the knave as her highest card. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
"A knave grown gray in the sins of the Exaltados," cried a third. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
The little knave appeared plainly in his conduct on this occasion. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
Upon which words Mr. Savile called my lord “a cowardly knave.”. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
"Have you any reason, knave, why I should spare you?" asked the fool. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
"Or a knave, sirrah!" thundered the duke, the veins starting out on his forehead. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Yonder plump, frisky dame seemed like the lamb; the gaunt knave by her side, the wolf. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
The king of spades being a stop, and the player having the knave and king of that suit. From Wordnik.com. [Round Games with Cards A Practical Treatise on All the Most Popular Games, with Their Different Variations, and Hints for Their Practice] Reference
Rubezahl had played his game, and had had all the amusement he desired with the poor knave. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference
"Who is this knave?" he asked at length, fixedly regarding the erstwhile badge of his defeat. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
By playing off queen and king of hearts, this player made the knave of hearts in the first hand a stop. From Wordnik.com. [Round Games with Cards A Practical Treatise on All the Most Popular Games, with Their Different Variations, and Hints for Their Practice] Reference
He therefore first plays this knave of hearts, following on with his four, clearing his hand and winning the game. From Wordnik.com. [Round Games with Cards A Practical Treatise on All the Most Popular Games, with Their Different Variations, and Hints for Their Practice] Reference
He is not crafty enough to be a knave, nor wise enough to be honest, but the midway betwixt; a kind of harmless man. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
The deal is decided in the ordinary way, the player to whom the first knave is turned up having the first right to deal the cards. From Wordnik.com. [Round Games with Cards A Practical Treatise on All the Most Popular Games, with Their Different Variations, and Hints for Their Practice] Reference
Scarcely had he pronounced this name, than a slave appeared, passed before the cage, and said, "Oh, you poor knave, how I pity you!". From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
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