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No Man is so much a Fool as not to have Wit enough sometimes to be a Knave ; nor any so cunning a Knave, as not to have the Weakness sometimes to play the Fool.
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Wherever a knave is not punished, an honest man is laughed at.
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Born:
November 11, 1633
Died:
April 5, 1695
(aged 61)
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