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Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England.

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Daniel Defoe
Age: 70 †
Born: 1660
Born: September 30
Died: 1731
Died: April 24
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Manchester

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A rich man is an honest man--no thanks to him for he would be a double knave, to cheat mankind when he had no need of it: he has no occasion to press upon his integrity, nor so much as to touch upon the borders of dishonesty.
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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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How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!
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All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.
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Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.
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And which I take notice of here, to put those discontented people in mind of it, who cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them, because they see and covet something that he has not given them. All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
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The Dutch must be understood as they really are, the Middle Persons in Trade, the Factors and Brokers of Europe... they buy to sell again, take in to send out again, and the greatest Part of their vast Commerce consists in being supply'd from All Parts of the World, that they may supply All th World Again.
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship : then fancy that, at a vast distance, I spied a sail, please myself with the hopes of it, and, after looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it quite, and sit down and weep like a child, and thus increase my misery by my folly.
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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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[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .
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He that is rich is wise.
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Law is but a heathen word for power.
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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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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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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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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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What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?
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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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