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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

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Daniel Defoe
Age: 70 †
Born: 1660
Born: September 30
Died: 1731
Died: April 24
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He that is rich is wise.
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I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over.
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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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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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In the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into.
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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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For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.
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It is never too late to be wise.
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She is always married too soon, who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late, who gets a good one.
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Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.
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It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
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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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I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.
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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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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
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He that Opposes his own Judgment against the Current of the Times, ought to be back'd with unanswerable Truths and he that has that Truth on his Side, is a Fool, as well as a Coward, if he is afraid to own it, because of the Currency or Multitude of other Mens Opinions.
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Avery fine city the four principal streets are the fairest for breadth, and the finest built that I have ever seen in one city together? In a word,'tis the cleanest and beautifullest, and best built city in Britain, London excepted.
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