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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.

Daniel Defoe

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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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

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Love is being stupid together.

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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

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