| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 43235 |
| QUOTATION: | Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves Repose and fatten. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Thomas Otway (16521685), 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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