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Daniel Defoe Quotes

Brief author info: Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) Born Daniel Foe. English novelist, pamphleteer, journalist, political agent.

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

Daniel Defoe

I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.

Daniel Defoe

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

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We loved the doctrine for the teacher's sake.

Daniel Defoe

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

Daniel Defoe

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The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.

- Alexander Penney

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To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy.

- Sun Yat-sen

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Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

- Albert Einstein

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Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

- Bruce Lee

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Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

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