Quotes about Daniel Defoe

Pride the first peer and president of hell.

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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if...

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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his...

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It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep,...

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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.

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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the...

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He that is rich is wise.

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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all...

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All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness...

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All men would be tyrants if they could.

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Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

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