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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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 am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.
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Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about.
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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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Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.
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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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