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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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London
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Manchester
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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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Call upon me in the Day of Trouble, and I will deliver, and thou shalt glorify me...Wait on the Lord, and be of good Cheer, and he shall strengthen thy Heart wait, I say, on the Lord:' It is impossible to express the Comfort this gave me. In Answer, I thankfully laid down the Book, and was no more sad, at least, not on that Occasion.
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Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive.
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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 hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.
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For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.
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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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Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.
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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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It is never too late to be wise.
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Pleasure is a thief to business.
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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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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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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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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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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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What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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