“Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,
But good men starve for want of impudence.”

— John Dryden

Constantine the Great (1684), Epilogue.
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden

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English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century 1631–1700

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“Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,
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