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I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.
Daniel Defoe
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Daniel Defoe
Age: 70 †
Born: 1660
Born: September 30
Died: 1731
Died: April 24
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He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them or that they who talk of such things never do them.
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Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!
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