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And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
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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How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!
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I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over.
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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