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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.

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Friend Quote

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

- Walter Winchell

Friendship Quote

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

- Euripides

Wisdom Quote

Before God we are all equally wise-equally foolish.

- Albert Einstein

Marriage Quote

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

- Marilyn Monroe

Sad Quote

There are times when sorrow seems the only truth.

- Oscar Wilde

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