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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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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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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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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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Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.
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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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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
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Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.
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Pleasure is a thief to business.
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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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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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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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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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It is never too late to be wise.
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[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .
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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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He that is rich is wise.
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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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No shoots, says Friday, no yet, me shoot now, me no kill me stay, give you one more laugh.
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