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QUOTATION:Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves Repose and fatten.
ATTRIBUTION:Thomas Otway (1652–1685), British dramatist. repr. In Works of Thomas Otway, ed. J.C. Ghosh (1932). Pierre, in Venice Preserved, act 1, sc. 1 (1682).
 
 
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