Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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Middle age is youth without its levity, And age without decay.Daniel Defoe
Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
Daniel Defoe
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
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
Daniel Defoe
In the morning, looking towards the sea side, the tide being low, I saw something lie on the shore bigger than ordinary, and it looked like a cask when I came to it, I found a small barrel, and two or three pieces of the wreck of the ship, which were driven on shore by the late hurrican and looking towards the wreck itself, I thought it seemed to lie higher out of the water than it used to do.
Daniel Defoe
The height of human wisdom is ... to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.
Daniel Defoe
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