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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
Daniel Defoe
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Daniel Defoe
Age: 70 †
Born: 1660
Born: September 30
Died: 1731
Died: April 24
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Never, ladies, marry a fool. Any husband rather than a fool. With some other husband you may be unhappy, but with a fool you will be miserable.
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For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.
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All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.
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[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .
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I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret, overruling decree, that hurries us on to be the instruments of our own destruction, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our eyes open.
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Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive.
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Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.
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No shoots, says Friday, no yet, me shoot now, me no kill me stay, give you one more laugh.
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Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.
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Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.
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He that is rich is wise.
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It is men of desperate fortunes on the one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortunes on the other, who go abroad upon adventures, to rise by enterprise, and make themselves famous in undertakings of a nature out of the common road.
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What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?
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It is never too late to be wise.
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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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Today we love what tomorrow we hate, today we seek what tomorrow we shun, today we desire what tomorrow we fear, nay, even tremble at the apprehensions of.
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I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
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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.
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