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Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive.

Daniel Defoe

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Daniel Defoe
Age: 70 †
Born: 1660
Born: September 30
Died: 1731
Died: April 24
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Daniel Foe
Wit
Thoughts
Fruitful
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Womb

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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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I had dropped a good design, which I had once bent my thoughts upon, and that was to try if I could not make some of my barley into malt, and then try to brew myself some beer.
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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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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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Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England.
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Law is but a heathen word for power.
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Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
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Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.
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It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore.
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