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Updated: May 9, 2025
And in those parts of your miserable nature where you are not a knave for I willingly concede that no man or woman is bad all through in those parts, I say, where your knavishness is intermittent, you are an absolute, unmitigated fool." "I will not bear this," cried Annalise. "Will not! Cannot! Shall not! Inept Negation, get thee to thy kitchen and seek wisdom among the pots."
"I wish to heaven, Carson, I had your talents for business. Do you think my tenants attached to me?" "Attached! sir, they are ready to cut your throat or mine, on the first convenient opportunity. You could not conceive their knavishness and dishonesty, except you happened to be an agent for a few years. "So I have been told, and I am resolved to remove every dishonest tenant from my estate.
He knew of the movement on foot to develop the property, so long held in idleness, but he did not know who were the persons interested. He could find out. He did so, and within the week he had given the probate judge the outline of as pretty a story of cheap knavishness as the judge had come across for years.
Spies and informers are everywhere about us. Mr. Commissioner Sleuth and his hounds may cry tally-ho every day, if 'tis their pleasure to! To put it shortly, boys, we're living under semi-martial law. To such a state have we free-born men, men who came out but to see the elephant, been reduced, by the asinine stupidity of the Government, by the impudence and knavishness of its officials.
A great many of the absurd, perverse, unkind, unpleasant things which people do are not knavish at all they are silly, selfish little diplomacies, guileless obedience to conventions, unreasonable deference to imaginary authority. People don't mean any harm by such tricks they are the subterfuges of weakness: but when you come upon real cynical deliberate knavishness that is different.
That is what experience ought to give you a power, that is, of seeing what is really there, and of being more amused than shocked by it. That helps you to distinguish real knavishness from childish faults.
Yes, pride," he said to himself, turning over on his stomach and beginning to tie a noose of blades of grass, trying not to break them. "And not merely pride of intellect, but dulness of intellect. And most of all, the deceitfulness; yes, the deceitfulness of intellect. The cheating knavishness of intellect, that's it," he said to himself.
Dost thou not love me enough to make me secure with the prince, and so, secure in mine advisership to the king?" Masanath arose slowly, as if her movements kept pace with the progress of her realizations. Thus far she had been a loving and a believing child. The genial knavishness of her father had never appeared as such to her. In her sight he was cheery, great and lovable.
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