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Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.

Daniel Defoe

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Daniel Defoe
Age: 70 †
Born: 1660
Born: September 30
Died: 1731
Died: April 24
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London
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Daniel Foe
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Wit
Members
Head
Like
Distract
Starve
Belly

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He that is rich is wise.
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Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.
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Pleasure is a thief to business.
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Not the man in the moon, not the groaning-board, not the speaking of friar Bacon's brazen- head, not the inspiration of mother Shipton, or the miracles of Dr. Faustus, things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.
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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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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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Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there And 't will be found, upon examination, the latter has the largest congregation.
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No man commits evil for the sake of it even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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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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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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Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.
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It is never too late to be 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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[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .
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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 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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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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