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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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Daniel Defoe
Age: 70 †
Born: 1660
Born: September 30
Died: 1731
Died: April 24
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Journalist
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Opinion Journalist
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London
England
Daniel Foe
Bent
Beer
Thoughts
Design
Upon
Malt
Trying
Barley
Make
Brew
Good
Dropped

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