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Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)

British novelist, pamphleteer, and journalist

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

DANIEL DEFOE, Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe

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

DANIEL DEFOE, The Kentish Petition

For I cannot think that GOD Almighty ever made them [women] so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable and so delightful to mankind; with souls capable of the same accomplishments with men: and all, to be only Stewards of our Houses, Cooks, and Slaves.

DANIEL DEFOE, The Education of Women

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond; and must be polished, or the lustre of it will never appear.

DANIEL DEFOE, The Education of Women

The best of men cannot suspend their fate:
The good die early, and the bad die late.

DANIEL DEFOE, Character of the late Dr. S. Annesley

Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
The Devil always builds a chapel there;
And 'twill be found, upon examination,
The latter has the largest congregation.

DANIEL DEFOE, The True-Born Englishman

And of all plagues with which mankind are curst,
Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.

DANIEL DEFOE, The True-Born Englishman


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