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Daniel Defoe

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


— Daniel Defoe


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It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.


— Daniel Defoe


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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.


— Daniel Defoe


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


— Daniel Defoe


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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.


— Daniel Defoe


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Pride the first peer and president of hell.


— Daniel Defoe


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He that is rich is wise.


— Daniel Defoe


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


— Daniel Defoe


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All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.


— Daniel Defoe


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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.


— Daniel Defoe


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The Latin edition of the book was entitled Philosophus Autodidactus and it was an earlier novel that is also set on a deserted island. By September 1706 Harley ordered Defoe to Edinburgh as a secret agent to do everything possible to help secure acquiescence in the Treaty of Union. He told Harley that he was "privy to all their folly" but "Perfectly unsuspected as with corresponding with anybody in England".

: /ˌdænjəl dɨˈfoʊ/; ca. He was also a pioneer of economic journalism. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel as he helped to popularise the form in Britain and along with others such as Samuel Richardson is among the founders of the English novel.

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