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• He that is rich is wise, And all men learned poverty despise.

  Daniel Defoe

  Wise, Men, Poverty

  Daniel Defoe (1840). “A System of Magic”, p.19

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• Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.

  Daniel Defoe

  Redemption, Affliction, Sin

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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.

  Daniel Defoe

  Marriage, Husband, Too Late

  Daniel Defoe, George Chalmers (1840). “The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe”, p.76

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• Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.

  Daniel Defoe

  Want, States, Enjoy

  Daniel Defoe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Daniel Defoe (Illustrated)”, p.128, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Daniel Defoe

  Husband, Unhappy, May

  Daniel Defoe (1855). “Roxana; Or, The Fortunate Mistress: And The Life and Adventures of Mother Ross”, p.3

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

  Daniel Defoe

  Doubt, Atheism, Tyranny

  'The True-Born Englishman' (1701) pt. 2, l. 299

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• Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.

  Daniel Defoe

  Certain, Friars, Taxes

  1726 History of the Devil, bk.2, ch.6. 0 See also Franklin 335:18.

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• 'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

  Daniel Defoe

  Cheating, Devil, Literature

  Daniel Defoe (1754). “The Political History of the Devil ... The Whole Interspers'd with Many of the Devil's Adventures ... To which is Added, a Description of the Devil's Dwelling, Vulgarly Call'd Hell. The Fifth Edition. [By Daniel Defoe.]”, p.304

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• Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.

  Daniel Defoe

  Pride, President, Peers

  Daniel Defoe (1843). “The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt”, p.19

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• Why then should women be denied the benefits of instruction? If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions to the sex, God almighty would never have given them capacities.

  Daniel Defoe

  Sex, Women, Understanding

  An Essay upon Projects "Of Academies: An Academy forWomen" (1697)

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

  Daniel Defoe

  Doors, Vices, Inclination

  'Moll Flanders' (1721)

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• I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.

  Daniel Defoe

  Giving, Accounts, Ought

  Daniel Defoe (2007). “Moll Flanders”, p.167, Book Jungle

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• For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.

  Daniel Defoe

  Grief, Joy, Firsts

  Daniel Defoe, Thomas Keymer, James Kelly (2008). “Robinson Crusoe”, p.284, Oxford University Press

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• Business neglected is business lost.

  Daniel Defoe

  Lost, Neglected

  Daniel Defoe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Daniel Defoe (Illustrated)”, p.4441, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Daniel Defoe

  Coward, Fool, Sides

  "A Collection of the Writings of the Author of The True-born English-man".

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• It put me upon reflecting how little repining there would be among mankind at any condition of life, if people would rather compare their condition with those that were worse, in order to be thankful, than be always comparing them with those which are better, to assist their murmurings and complaining.

  Daniel Defoe

  Order, People, Being Thankful

  Daniel Defoe (2016). “The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe”, p.177, First Avenue Editions

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• I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over.

  Daniel Defoe

  Games, Cheat

  Daniel Defoe (2007). “Moll Flanders”, p.101, Book Jungle

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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.

  Daniel Defoe

  Integrity, Men, Borders

  Daniel Defoe (2016). “DANIEL DEFOE Ultimate Collection: 50+ Adventure Classics, Pirate Tales & Historical Novels - Including Biographies, Historical Works, Travel Sketches, Poems & Essays (Illustrated): Robinson Crusoe, The History of the Pirates, Captain Singleton, Memoirs of a Cavalier, A Journal of the Plague Year, Moll Flanders, Roxana, The History of the Devil, The King of Pirates and many more”, p.5425, e-artnow

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• So possible is it for us to roll ourselves up in wickedness, till we grow invulnerable by conscience; and that sentinel, once dozed, sleeps fast, not to be awakened while the tide of pleasure continues to flow or till something dark and dreadful brings us to ourselves again.

  Daniel Defoe

  Sleep, Dark, Wickedness

  Daniel Defoe (2015). “The Fortunate Mistress: or, a History of the Life of Mademoiselle de Bealau Known by the Name of Lady Roxana”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Law is but a heathen word for power.

  Daniel Defoe

  Power, Law, Heathen

  Daniel Defoe (1843). “The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt”, p.52

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

  Daniel Defoe

  Men, Tyrants, Blood

  'The Kentish Petition' (1712-13) addenda l. 11

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• No man of common sense will value a woman the less, for not giving herself up at the first attack, or for not accepting his proposal without enquiring into his person or character; on the contrary, he must think her the weakest of all creatures in the world, as the rate of men now goes; in short, he must have a very contemptible opinion of her capacities, nay, even of her understanding, that having but one cast for her life, shall cast that life away at once, and make matrimony like death, be a leap in the dark.

  Daniel Defoe

  Character, Dark, Men

  Daniel Defoe (2011). “Moll Flanders”, p.94, OUP Oxford

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• A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a creature without comparison. Her society is the emblem of sublimer enjoyments, her person is angelic, and her conversation heavenly. She is all softness and sweetness, peace, love, wit, and delight. She is every way suitable to the sublimest wish, and the man that has such a one to his portion, has nothing to do but to rejoice in her, and be thankful.

  Daniel Defoe

  Women, Accomplishment, Being Thankful

  Daniel Defoe (2017). “An Essay Upon Projects”, p.130, Litres

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• Tis very strange men should be so fond of being wickeder than they are.

  Daniel Defoe

  Men, Strange Man, Strange

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• As for women that do not think their own safety worth their thought, that impatient of their present state, resolve as they call it to take the first good Christian that comes; that runs into matrimony, as a horse rushes into battle; I can say nothing to them, but this, that they are a sort of ladies that are to be pray'd for among the rest of distemper'd people; and to me they look like people that venture their whole estates in a lottery where there is a hundred thousand blanks to one prize.

  Daniel Defoe

  Christian, Running, Horse

  Daniel Defoe (1840). “The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt”

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