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

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• Pleasure is a thief to business.

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• A very fine city; the four principal streets are the fairest for breadth, and the finest built that I have ever seen in one city together… In a word, ’tis the cleanest and beautifullest, and best built city in Britain, London excepted.

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• Here is a pleasant situation, and yet nothing pleasant to be seen. Here is a harbour without ships, a port without trade, a fishery without nets, a people without business; and, that which is worse than all, they do not seem to desire business, much less do they understand it.

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• Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England.

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• My man Friday.

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• It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man’s naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand. I stood like one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen an apparition.

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• Actions receive their tincture from the times, And as they change are virtues made or crimes.

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• His lazy, long, lascivious reign.

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• Your Roman-Saxon-Danish-Norman English.

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• From this amphibious ill-born mob began That vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman.

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• Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And ’twill be found, upon examination, The latter hast the largest congregation.

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

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• As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

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  All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of s

  thankfulnes

  for what we have.

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• All men would be tyrants if they could.

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

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

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• He that is rich is wise.

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• I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

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Daniel Defoe (29)

Birth:	13th September, 1660
Death:	24th April, 1731
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Journalist, Writer, Merchant

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