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There used to be a tradition of the loveable rogue who would steal from the honour boxes in churches and buy a round of drinks with the money he snagged. And everyone would find him tremendously good company. But not any more.

— Douglas Coupland

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

— Henry Fielding

And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell.

— Edward Fitzgerald

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

— Charles de Secondat

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

— Jonathan Swift

One of the strengths of the DC Universe has been the strength of the rogues' gallery. Often times they're as famous - if not more infamous - than our heroes.

— Jim Lee

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

— Adlai E. Stevenson

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

— Eric Hoffer

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

— Jonathan Swift

✗Opposing Perspectives

A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.

— John Gay

I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

— Anthony Trollope